Chapter 201: Slaughtering the city and plundering the land
The naval tactics of the Tang Navy Division have just been tested, and they have proved to be effective.
At the mouth of the Baekje River, the news of the defeat of the Wa fleet may have already reached the mainland, and three days later, outside the port of Nagasaki of the Wa State of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty Navy Division Chen Ship once again put on the position of destroying the enemy at the mouth of the Baekgang River.
At this time, the port of Nagasaki in the Wa Kingdom was much smaller than the Shirae estuary.
The more than 1,000 small warships of the Japanese kingdom that sailed to Baekje should have gambled on this war with the strength of the Japanese state.
The Japanese were defeated and the fleet was completely wiped out at the mouth of the Shirae River, and the fleet left behind in the port of Nagasaki was almost completely unable to pose any threat to the Tang naval division.
Li Qinzai squinted his eyes and roughly counted the more than 100 warships of the Japanese Kingdom that sailed from the port of Nagasaki, and there were more than 60 warships of the Tang Navy Division commanded by Li Qinzai and Cheng Boxianneng.
More than 60 large warships, against more than 100 small fishing boats......
In the rumbling drums, the Datang sailors lined up their formation, and then slowly crushed over.
Crushed without suspense, the mention of the naval battle process made the Japanese people sad, and more than 100 small warships were annihilated under the huge waves of the Tang Dynasty Navy Division in an instant.
There was not even a decent resistance, and after the boat approached, it weakly shot a few arrows at the Tang Dynasty battleship, and then, by the three-eyed gun several rounds of salvos, the Japanese people on the small boat died, and the one who jumped into the sea jumped into the sea.
Then it's time for the Three-Eyed Gun to reap the dead. According to Li Qinzai's order, both those who resisted on small boats and those who jumped into the sea were shot with three-eyed guns, leaving no one alive and no prisoners of war.
Many years later, in the history books of the Japanese Kingdom, there were only four words for this sudden war, "the coastal sea is red".
In this way, the battleship of the Tang Navy Division slowly landed in Nagasaki.
On the shore of Nagasaki Harbor, countless Japanese people gathered, and they still did not give up and fired a frenzied salvo at the battleship that was slowly approaching the shore.
Of course, the three-eyed guns on the Tang Dynasty battleship would not be polite, and after a few rounds of shooting, the arrow array of the Japanese people was in chaos.
The three-eyed gun belongs to the shotgun, the gunpowder is mixed with many sharp iron pieces, after ignition and launch, the iron pieces are sprayed out from the muzzle, and the damage to the enemy is in pieces, such power is by no means comparable to the bow and arrow, especially in close combat, the three-eyed gun is invincible.
The Japanese had never seen a firearm, let alone knew how powerful it was.
As soon as the battle began, the Japanese were shocked to find that this strange-looking weapon, which could make a loud noise and spew fire, was so sharp that it could knock down a piece with a single shot, and after a few volleys, there was almost no grass within fifty paces.
Under the cover of 2,000 poles and three-eyed guns, the officers and men of the Tang warships calmly landed and lined up in the open space of the harbor, while the resisting Japanese were dead and wounded, and the remnants fled one after another.
The Tang Army on land is even more invincible, and no one can stop it in the whole of Asia today.
On the battleship upstairs, Cheng Boxian turned his head to look at Li Qinzai, and said: "Brother Jing Chuxian, this battle is your idea, let's talk about it, after our soldiers land, what kind of charter?" ”
Li Qinzai said lightly: "Replenish grain, grass and water on the spot, and then go all the way to the east, towards Kyoto, the Japanese Kingdom." ”
Cheng Boxian said movingly: "Dumping the royal city, the abandoned palace room? ”
Li Qinzai said strangely: "Isn't this how the country is destroyed? ”
Cheng Boxian's expression was worried, what about destroying the country, of course it was destroyed like this, how cruel it was.
The combined forces of the Tang Dynasty and Silla conquered Baekje, destroying Baekje from the inside out, leaving the entire country completely occupied by foreign countries, and Baekje becoming a country that was destroyed in the true sense of the word.
Can...... There is a king's order to destroy Baekje, and the division is famous, how to destroy the Wa Kingdom? Has the Tang Dynasty issued an edict of conquest? Did the courtiers of Chang'an agree?
Cheng Boxian sighed, rubbed his face vigorously, and muttered, "I always feel like I'm on a thief ship......"
Li Qinzai patted him on the shoulder and said very literarily: "I can't go back, Brother Shangxian, we can't go back." ”
Pointing to the sea red with blood, and then to the Japanese people who fled in panic at the port, Li Qinzai said: "The war has started, and our army has also landed on the Japanese mainland. ”
"In the battle of Baijiangkou, it was the Wa State that provoked the Tang Dynasty first, and now the Datang and the Wa State are belligerents, understand? Although we violated the order to land on the island, we were fighting the enemy, and you are the general who commands the army, and it is a taboo for the general to hesitate in front of the enemy. ”
Cheng Boxian gritted his teeth and said, "It's like this, let's do it first!" ”
"Pass my general order, the whole army advances, see the city and attack the city, see the land and plunder the land, see the thief kill the thief!"
As soon as the words fell, a partial general on the deck suddenly clenched his fists and said, "General Yulang, can you allow your brothers to slaughter the city?" ”
Cheng Boxian quickly glanced at Li Qinzai, although he was the commander of the army, but the person who came up with the idea along the way was Li Qinzai, which made Cheng Boxian can't help but take Li Qinzai as the main one.
Li Qinzai turned his head decisively, remained silent, and pretended not to hear.
Cheng Boxian understood, gritted his teeth, and said: "Every time you fall into a city, you can slaughter for a day." Only the prime of life is killed, not women and children. ”
The general gladly accepted the order.
There are rules for slaughtering the city, not recklessly acting without rules and scruples, this is the rule of the Tang Army. How long to massacre, who to massacre, etc., there were clear military orders before the war.
In the second year of Longshuo, in mid-February.
The Tang Army's naval division landed at the port of Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu in the Wa Kingdom, bringing the flames of war in Baekje to the Wa Kingdom itself.
On the first day of the Tang army's landing, the city of Nagasaki fell, and the city was covered with red blood, and the subjects wept and wailed.
100,000 Japanese people in Nagasaki begged under the sword of the Tang army, and the Tang army obeyed the order of Cheng Boxian to slaughter the city for a day, plundering the treasury and civilian property like a mountain.
The slaughter of the city gave vent to the pressure of war, plundered and satisfied the desire for property, and when the Tang army of more than 6,000 people marched east from Nagasaki again, the whole army was full of spirit, fighting spirit, and the spirit was completely different.
After the Tang army left, the city was full of blood and bones, ten rooms and nine empty, women were naked and crying in the sky, the prime men were slaughtered, the city was full of fires, and the largest foreign port city in the Japanese country was almost reduced to ruins.
On February 15 of the second year of Longshuo, the lord of the Wa Kingdom urgently dispatched 20,000 troops from Shikoku and Honshu Island to intercept the Tang army, and the two armies encountered at Xiaguan and a fierce battle broke out.
On February 17, the 20,000-strong army of the Japanese State was defeated and fled, and the Tang army paid more than 1,000 casualties.
In this era, firearms were completely crushed against cold weapons, and it was almost effortless, if it weren't for the long supply lines of the Tang Army's officers and soldiers, and the soldiers with guns did not wear heavy armor, they would not even have to pay for the casualties of more than 1,000 people.
After this battle, the Wa Kingdom fell into complete panic.
Because the whole country has no troops to use.
In the first battle of Baekje Baekgang Estuary, the Wa State sent more than 40,000 people, and the entire army was annihilated, and the only remaining 20,000 troops of the Wa State were defeated in the Battle of Xiaguan on the mainland.
At that time, there were less than 80,000 standing troops in the country, and the rest of the army was in the hands of those selfish small lords.
The news of the defeat at Xiaguan reached Asuka City, and the regent of the Wa Kingdom, the eldest brother of the prince, urgently summoned the courtiers to discuss, and after the discussion of the monarch and the ministers, they decided to sue for peace with the Tang army, and sent envoys to Xiaguan to ask to see Li Qinzai and Cheng Boxian.
February 24.
Li Qinzai refused to meet the envoys of the Japanese state and expelled him from the camp. The Don army continued to advance eastward.
On the twenty-sixth day of February, the envoy for peace was expelled, and the news that the Tang army continued to advance eastward reached Asuka City.
The strong enemy pressed the border, internal and external troubles, the eldest brother and the prince had to compromise internally, and on February 28, the clan issued an edict to allow the powerful in the country to have private soldiers.
In early March, the Tang army continued to advance to Okayama.
At this point, the Tang army had occupied nearly half of the territory of the Wa Kingdom, and the traces of the forward scouts had appeared outside Asuka Castle in Kyoto.
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