Chapter 593: Humiliation

After watching the fire overnight, Chen Xie, who came out of the cabin in the morning, was grooming when the sentry on the shore sent a message in the language of the flag, and the shogunate came.

During the daytime battle, from morning to dusk, from sea to land, Tokugawa Iemitsu was completely chilled. The opponent is too strong to fight. Personal bravery, the spirit of not fearing death, is completely useless. The most powerful samurai could not withstand a single bullet, and the bravest soldiers, in front of the platoon of guns and artillery, were only lined up to die.

The fire was still being put out in the city, so Tokugawa Iemitsu summoned a group of subordinates to a meeting, and couldn't wait to say, "Next, what should I do?" He can't say the word "surrender", he can only say it to his subordinates.

"Let's make peace! When Yushiba Hideyoshi was at his peak, he was not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Ming Dynasty has poured the national navy division to attack, and the most elite army has come, we have fought, and we are not ashamed to lose. It was Sakai Tadashi who came out to speak, and for his memory, the Li Jiajun during the Wanli period was indeed a "partial division". He didn't know that in the army of the Ming Dynasty, there were 8,000 elite soldiers under Li Chengliang, which was really the most capable army of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

"I'm sorry for betraying your trust. If the peace talks fail, I will thank the world by disembowelment. lest the Japanese people fall into endless war. Tokugawa Iemitsu hurriedly expressed his attitude, in fact, the shogun would not care about the life and death of the people. This is the same as the fact that Emperor XX of World War II did not care about the life or death of the Japanese people, and the shogun was concerned about his dominance over the country. After all, the nominal ruler of Japan, that is the emperor, and the general is just acting on behalf of the power. Maintaining one's dominance has always come first. Emperor So-and-so during World War II was also a way, when the atomic bomb did not fall. clamoring for the whole people to break the jade and let the US military die a million. After the atomic bomb falls, who knows if it will be dropped in Tokyo? After the dream of trying to deter the American army with huge casualties went bankrupt, the surrender edict came out in a twisted way.

In the final analysis, the rulers are almost the same, and the interests of the people are all Nima, as long as they have their own country in hand.

The crowd hastened to persuade each other. After Tokugawa Iemitsu pretended to be a hypothetical attitude, he announced the adjournment of the meeting with a sad expression, leaving behind a Sakai Tadakatsu who took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the peace talks. "Do you know what to do?" The tone was a little gloomy, and Sakai Tadakatsu said in a high-spirited voice: "Your Majesty knows that for the sake of Japan's future, you will do everything you can to reach peace talks. But please do something in advance, send someone to Nagasaki, and catch the samurai who killed the Ming people, as well as the merchant who broke the contract and caused a dispute. Please take it down as well. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded: "You're very good at building yì, go back and prepare." After Sakai Tadashi went down, a man in black flashed from behind the screen, knelt in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu and said, "General, what are your orders?" Tokugawa Iemitsu picked up the wine glass in front of him, took a sip slowly, and said lightly: "Go, bring the head of Ishida Furi." Tomorrow it will be handed over to Tadashi Sakai. ”

This Ishida was actually a merchant in charge of the Shogunate's Nagasaki trade (made up). This guy is very capable, and Tokugawa Iemitsu is very reluctant, but now there is no way but to let him die. Who let him do the thing of breaking the contract, who let the warriors under his command kill the people of the Ming Dynasty. Killing is a trifle. Can't you just make it cleaner? It's stupid not to leave everyone behind. Harming others and oneself eventually brought great disasters to Japan.

You don't need any reason to kill a lackey. The power of the Japanese shogunate is much greater than that of the first and auxiliary ministers of the Ming Cabinet. Emperors are all puppets. How much more about a businessman?

After making this decision without psychological pressure, Tokugawa Iemitsu is still thinking about what is the bottom line. Sakai Tadakatsu, in fact, there are not many things that can be decided, just to say hello and find out the situation. As for the argument that Japan is a country that is not conquered by the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Iemitsu does not believe it, and Sakai Tadakatsu will not take it seriously.

Sakai Tadakatsu, who was flying a white flag and six of his entourage, left home early this morning, and when he left Edo, he looked back at the smoking dock, which was once a bustling port. The native merchants who came from Nagasaki brought with them European and Daming goods, which were the most expensive goods. Now this bustling wharf has become a ruin, and the green smoke is still rising, wisps by wisp, enchanting in the morning breeze.

No one was knocking on the iron plate behind him and singing the wind and sorrow, only silently bowing his head and walking forward. With a sense of sadness, Sakai Tadashi's heart was permeating, and suddenly the entourage behind him stopped him, stopped and looked ahead, a group of people were waiting. Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was standing in front, was definitely going to see him off at this time.

"Sakai-kun, please!" Tokugawa Iemitsu stepped forward, knelt on the ground, bowed and bowed, and fell to his knees behind him.

Outside the barracks, the soldiers with rifles unceremoniously aimed their bayonets at Sakai Tadakatsu, and the officer on duty slowly came with great arrogance: "Who are you, what do you mean by coming here?" ”

"The elder Sakai Tadakatsu under the command of the Great General of the Great Japanese Empire, I have come to see His Excellency the General of the Ming Empire, and please report." Sakai Tadashi habitually came to say a sentence about the Great Japanese Empire, and the officer couldn't help but be happy when he heard the translation, and said with a smile: "The small island with a big palm is still the Great Japanese Empire, and I am the Ming Empire, are you sure that you are here to ask for a meeting?" Forget it, Yelang's arrogant thing, too lazy to bother with you, waiting here. ”

"Yaga!" A retinue behind him couldn't help but feel emotional, and the knife was pulled out with a brush, and this action was immediately met with a powerful response, bang, three gunshots rang out, and several soldiers reacted subconsciously and opened fire. Originally, he was loaded with guns when he saw someone coming, but this thing actually dared to draw a knife here, and that didn't kill him.

"What the fuck are you doing? Seeing blood early in the morning, you are not afraid of bad luck, just such a small bug, is it worth three shots? Waste knows? Do you know how difficult it is to transport supplies from Liaodong? The officer was annoyed, and when he turned around, he was startled when he heard the gunshots, and when he looked back at the formation, he angrily kicked a few soldiers who had fired to hide his fright.

Seeing his most trusted entourage lying in a pool of blood, forcibly enduring the feeling of humiliation, Sakai Tadashi turned around and shouted: "Yaga, don't mess around." At this time, the young officer finished venting, turned his head to look at Sakai Tadakatsu, and lightly dropped a sentence: "Take off the knife, do you still plan to take the knife to see the Cabinet Lord?" ”

Sakai Tadashi silently took off the knife, and the entourage who stretched out his hand cried bitterly, and they all obediently took off the knife and put it aside. The officer said: "Wait, remember to clean up the corpse yourself, don't make the smell of blood at the door, move a little farther away." ”

When the opponent is too strong, no matter how great the humiliation is, you can only endure it silently. Sakai Tadashi comforted himself like this, and kept silently reciting it in his heart. The officer didn't go long before he came back and beckoned, "You, bring your interpreter and come with me." ”

Sakai Tadakatsu, who followed the officer inside, kept looking at the qiē in the barracks, and the more he walked inside, the more shocked his heart became. The biggest feature of this army is that it is well equipped, and it is the kind that makes people want to cry. I have seen the strength of the opponent on the battlefield, and every qiē I see at this time will correspond one by one. In front of the huge tent, a group of soldiers who were in full gear made the officers in front slow down and said loudly: "The Japanese have come to the envoy, and I am afraid that we will not be able to fight today." ”

An officer came out of the tent, who looked like a very powerful one, and scolded the young officer: "Li Yongcai, you are talking nonsense, Lao Tzu picks your skin." "Naturally, it was Su Haochen who scolded people, Chen Xie did not go ashore, he was the supreme commander. Originally, Chen Xie wanted to go ashore, but the flagship on the sea was the Liaoning, and it was difficult for him to go away, and it was also a battlefield.

Reprimanded the young officer, Su Haochen stepped forward, Sakai Tadashi immediately bowed and saluted, Su Haochen casually raised his hand and saluted back: "Okay, you come with me, I don't have time to talk to you." He just walked away, not even wanting to say a word more.

Sakai Tadashi was horrified in his heart, what could this contempt mean? He knew very well in his heart, could it be that people didn't plan to negotiate peace? Or is it a posturing? The mood became extremely complicated, and Sakai Tadakatsu followed him to the shore and got into a small boat. As he staggered towards the flagship Liaoning, Tadashi Sakai, who was kneeling in the bow of the ship, looked at the huge flagship in horror.

When I looked at it from the shore, it was not so intuitive, but when I looked closer, I realized how huge this warship was. The dense cannon doors are closed at the moment, and when they are opened, it means that there are raindrops of shells. There are also a lot of floating debris in the bay, especially on the shore, and there are many corpses.

At this time, Sakai Tadakatsu noticed that many people had come to the beach to find and collect the corpses. Being able to find the body of a loved one is of course the best, and if you can't find it, you can't complain. The only good thing is that the Ming army did not stop this kind of behavior, but let it go, as long as they didn't get close, and there were even soldiers who sent the corpses over for them to identify.

The distance between the two sides is a barbed wire, which is really incomprehensible. These people are not afraid of the army of the Ming Dynasty, have they forgotten who set the fire? Have you forgotten who killed these relatives? Have you forgotten that these people are invaders? A series of questions, which is really unanswerable.

So, what are the facts? Very simply, some Japanese fishermen told about the Ming army and told everyone that they were actually very talkative and would not kill ordinary people. So someone came to try to collect the body, but I didn't expect it to be really fine. (To be continued......)