"Run!"

"Back to the barracks!"

When this thought and sound appeared in the minds of the shogunate, suddenly there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind them!

At this moment, if you look down from the sky, you can see the 600 cavalry of the Ming army cruising on both flanks of the battlefield and launch a charge!

The horses of the Eastern Military Governor's Mansion are all military horses that are more than five feet tall and weigh more than 800 pounds.

When the Ming army, which is generally more than five feet four inches tall, rode on a semi-armored military horse with a body height of more than five feet, held a weapon, and rushed in armor, the feeling of suffocation like a wall instantly permeated.

"Cavalry Block!"

Tokugawa Tadashi Nagashi Kong constricted and gave military orders in despair, and in the face of his military orders, with the blowing of wooden whistles, the cavalry on both wings of the shogunate army could only rush forward.

It was supposed to be a collision between the cavalry and the cavalry, but as the distance between the two sides continued to approach, when the Ming soldiers on horseback were not as tall as the Ming soldiers standing on the ground, this collision became a crushing game.

"Put!"

"Beep-"

"Bang Bang Bang

When the wooden whistle sounded, the front row of more than 600 cavalry cavalry raised their right hand cavalry and launched a fire, and more than 100 bullets directly broke the cavalry of the shogunate in thin armor on the charging route of less than 20 paces.

The dwarf horses fell together, and one by one the Japanese fell off their horses, and were harvested by the Ming army using short soldiers.

Like an industrious farmer wielding a scythe in his hand in autumn, the shogunate cavalry fell.

With only a round of guns, the number of shogunate cavalry who fell in the cavalry was as high as 100 people, and at this time, the Ming army relied on the advantage of tall horses and tall strength, brandished the golden gourd hammer in his hand, and smashed into the flank of the shogunate cavalry!

The four-foot-three-inch Japanese pony was knocked to the ground by a war horse that weighed more than five feet, and this gap was similar to the gap between the Tiger tank and the Japanese Peanding tank during World War II.

After a charge, more than 800 shogunate cavalry were immediately submerged in the tall horses of the Ming army.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the so-called shogunate cavalry with strong armaments was completely finished, and the price paid by the Ming army was only a slight injury of twenty-five people.

"What a joke!

！ ”

Seeing that the cavalry he was proud of was dealt with by the cavalry of the Ming army, Tokugawa Iemitsu on Kyoto Castle pulled out the katana at his waist and slashed it at the salamina next to him.

When the Ming cavalry attacked as the final hammer, the form of the entire battlefield quickly became clear.

The artillery positions of the Ming army, which were not threatened, continued to urge the Yanshan five-jin cannon to use flowering shells to harvest the foot soldiers who had fled from the shogunate.

What is the use of cavalry under such means of bombardment? Can't rush through at all!

Tokugawa Tadanaga, who was coerced into retreating, managed to break free from the rout, but he had already been swept to the front of the camp.

Fortunately, although the shogunate soldiers broke and fled, the 800 cavalry blocked the Ming cavalry, causing the foot soldiers to return to the camp and begin to rely on the offensive to counterattack.

Tokugawa Tadadenaga, who had no choice but to witness the annihilation of his horseback, could only struggle to raise the katana in his hand: "For the glory of the shogunate!" Onboard! ”

"Boom!"

As soon as the words of "Long live" were shouted, I saw that the Ming army's position was full of smoke, and a stone bullet hit straight ahead, instantly hitting Tokugawa Tadanaga, and flesh and blood flew sideways......

Before the shogunate soldiers, who had relied on the fortifications to raise iron cannons to counterattack, could react, a steady stream of stone bullets was fired towards the camp and the head of Kyoto Castle.

In the "boom", 600 stone bullets rained down, which overwhelmed the shogunate foot soldiers hiding in the camp, and the casualty rate of nearly 40% made these people almost completely collapsed.

When the shelling was over, the Ming infantry began to continue their march, and when they approached the camp and began to line their guns, the shogunate soldiers in the camp fell one by one.

The falling comrades caused some of the shogunate soldiers to collapse, instantly drop their weapons and kneel on the ground, while more shogunate soldiers began to run towards Kyoto Castle in the rear.

The cavalry of the Ming army pursued them on the battlefield, and the cavalry harvested one shogunate after another.

From the beginning to the end, the gates of Kyoto were not opened, and the shogunate soldiers on the battlefield were captured and killed.

The corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle stained the entire battlefield land with blood red......

When the war outside the city was about to end, as the existence of Yan Siqi as a supervisor, Lu Jianxing took the military scribes to write the last of today's war report:

"At the end of the battle, our cavalry trampled on the Japanese formation, and harvested the Japanese heads with firearms......"

On the walls of Kyoto, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned pale, and the entire army of the camp outside the castle and 7,000 shogunate soldiers was wiped out, and it took only half an hour from the beginning to the end.

In half an hour, the Ming army was able to completely annihilate the enemy army with 3,000 against 7,000, which made him have to recognize the reality.

It's just that it was too late to recognize the reality at this time, and with the loss of the camp outside the city, the Ming artillery moved forward one mile, and then launched a fierce artillery bombardment of Kyoto City.

"Fixed Shot, Target Kyoto City, Elevation Height Forty-Five, Distance Two Hundred Paces, Ready ...... Put! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

Dense artillery sounds rang out, and the sound of "booming" stone bullets smashing on the city was also endless.

Although there were still more than 30,000 shogunate soldiers in Kyoto Castle, everyone knew that under the artillery of the Ming army, it was only a matter of time before Kyoto Castle fell.

The Ming artillery bombardment lasted from day to night, from night to day, and sixteen rounds of shelling every hour made it completely difficult for the shogunate soldiers in the city to sleep.

On the third day of the bombardment, a gap appeared in the Kyoto wall, and a large pile of stones on the wall collapsed, and Tokugawa Iemitsu could only try to repair it.

Six hundred six-pounder guns appeared on the same battlefield at the same time, a level of war that could hardly be seen in the whole of Europe during the thirty years of war.

In the face of such firepower, as time passed, until the first day of February, the walls of Kyoto completely collapsed and many gaps were opened, and more than 3,000 shogunate soldiers in the city were killed.

"Charge the whole army!"

"Dongdong Dong-"

With more than ten gaps in the city wall, Yan Siqi decisively issued a military order for the whole army to charge.

The drums continued to beat, and the Ming army shouted the slogan "Capture Mizuo alive" and killed towards Kyoto City.

The moat had long been cut off by the Ming army, and more than half a month of exposure to the sun had dried up and hardened the entire river.

Groups of Ming troops rushed into the castle of Kyoto and slashed the low shogunate soldiers who tried to encircle the gap.

The 30,000 shogunate soldiers were defeated by the attack of the 10,000 Ming army, and they could only try to use iron cannons to stop the Ming army in the streets of Kyoto.

They were divided into classic horizontal lines, a total of thirty rows, each row of about 100 people.

The first row held the iron cannon in his hand, poured a little gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then poured some gunpowder into the muzzle.

Then the projectile was stuffed and the trigger was pressed, and the trigger drove the connecting rod of the fire rope, and the smoldering fire rope slowly lowered, and the chicken pecked the rice to ignite the medicine in the medicine pool.

"Boom ......"

Unlike the crisp gunfire of the Ming army, the muskets used by the shogunate soldiers had a slightly dull sound.

This kind of arquebus imported from the west, although it is stronger than the bird gun, but it is also reflected in the places where it is not easy to explode, its power and range are still inferior to the Ming army's rifles, and the rate of fire is far inferior.

But after all, the Ming army had just entered the main road section, and it was caught off guard for a while, so thirty or fifty people fell in the direction of the Ming army!

"The general is onboard!

！ ”

Seeing that his iron cannon knocked down thirty or fifty people of the Ming army, Yin Da Masamune, who organized the street battle, shouted excitedly, and the shogunate iron artillery troops, who had a good life, also continued to reload ammunition as if they had been beaten with blood.

"What are they happy about?" Seeing that only thirty or fifty people had fallen, and because they were more than sixty steps away, many of them could still move, so Yan Siqi was confused by the brain circuits of this group of would-be robbers.

The shogunate's iron cannon was considered to have achieved certain results, but compared to the results of the Ming Dynasty, which had knocked down hundreds of people each time, it was a little unbearable.

If war can be reduced to a mathematical problem, then anyone who can now get the answer to this great battle through the current casualty exchange ratio is that the shogunate will definitely lose.

When the Ming army's infantry men arrived at the main street, they began to form a six-horizontal squad under the command of Yan Siqi, each with a platoon of 100 people.

"Put!"

"Bang... Bang... Bang-"

The continuous Ming army platoon guns began to counterattack, and the stubble of the shogunate iron cannon Ashigaru was harvested by the foot gun, and unlike the shogunate iron cannon Ashigaru standing still, the Ming army's platoon guns were on the way forward almost every second.

As the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, every time the Ming army lined up their guns, they were able to take the lives of hundreds of iron artillery in a row.

This scene was seen by the other generals of the shogunate, and they knew it well, so they naturally no longer put the hope of victory on the iron cannon Ashigaru, and they sounded the horn of the general attack.

"Onboard!"

When the Ming army's platoon guns were less than twenty paces away from the iron cannon ashigaru, some of the shogunate's soldiers hiding on the roofs of the houses began to shout hooray and leap down, trying to inflict damage on the Ming infantry men.

At the same time, the thousands of spears hiding behind the Iron Gunners also charged!

Their task was simple, that was to rush into the Ming army's infantry formation, disrupt their formation, and the best thing was to completely turn the battle into hand-to-hand combat and defeat the opposing infantry men.

There is no doubt that their task is difficult, but at the moment they have no way back.

"Onboard! Onboard! ”

Listening to the voices of the shogunate soldiers on the other side, Yan Siqi also knew in his heart that the shogunate's final blow was coming.

It's a pity that in front of Bu Gong, everyone is equal......

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang-"

Contrary to what Yin Da Masamune thought, when the shogunate soldiers on the roof jumped out of the formation of the Ming army's foot soldiers, they were slashed by the Ming army without even making a splash.

The footmen are not tigers with lost teeth, before they become the footmen, they are all elites who can fight each other with Jianyu on the battlefield of Liaodong for a day.

Facing the shogunate soldiers who were four feet five inches tall, they were as tall as adults in kindergarten, and they killed the shogunate soldiers who fell into the battle one by one.

This group of shogunate soldiers did not cause any damage to the Ming army's formation, but instead arrived and sent a group of heads.

The infantry men in the front row were not affected and took the infantry and began to shoot, and the shogunate spear Ashigaru, who thought that he could achieve victory by approaching the Ming army's infantry players, was directly destroyed by the platoon of guns.

After rows and rows of shogunate soldiers fell, Yoon Da Masamune could only grab the generals next to him and shouted:

"The whole army retreats from the north gate, and the emperor and the shogun are notified to retreat!"

Kyoto City couldn't hold it, and after seeing the Ming army's offensive and defensive infantry formation, Yin Da Masamune clearly had a self-awareness.

The 30,000 shogunate soldiers could never hold the castle of Kyoto, and only by retreating could they reserve troops for the shogunate.

If all 30,000 of these 30,000 people were killed in Kyoto Castle, then Edo would be in danger.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to issue a military order to retreat, and led the shogunate soldiers to break through to the north gate.

After the North Gate broke through, it was a mountainous area, and it was absolutely impossible for the Ming army, who did not know the terrain, to pursue it deeply, so the shogunate soldiers could successfully withdraw to Gifu and establish a second line of defense in Gifu.

But only if they can escape Kyoto Castle......

For the Ming army, the Japanese were five taels of silver for walking, and when they saw the Japanese withdraw, they rushed up to chase and kill them as soon as their brains were hot.

Not only them, but even Yan Siqi pulled out the Yanling knife and prepared to shout.

But before he could shout, Lu Jianxing appeared to stop him and said, "You can stop the pursuit." ”

"Why?" Yan Siqi asked incomprehensibly, while Lu Jianxing frowned:

"His Royal Highness's military order is to let you fight slowly, fight carefully, you fought too rough in this battle, if you annihilate the elite of the shogunate in a war, Tokugawa Iemitsu can only surrender, that is not what His Highness wants to see."

"I ......" Yan Siqi wanted to ask how to fight "play slowly and carefully", but he felt that it was a little inappropriate to ask directly, so he could only turn his head and say to Zheng Zhilong:

"The whole army stops pursuing!"

"Yes......"

The two of them were unwilling to order the whole army to stop the pursuit, and when Lu Jianxing saw this, he also turned his head and said to the Qianhu who was following him:

"Deliver the good news to Your Highness, just say that our army has captured all the territories south of Kyoto City, and the Iwami Silver Mine is already in hand, may I ask Your Highness what to do next."

"Yes!" Jinyi Wei Qianhu responded, and then according to Lu Jianxing's words, he sent the news back to China.

When the good news came to Zhu Youzhen, it was already the fourth day of March in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, and when he got the good news, he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction:

"Iwami Silver Mine has been taken!"

"Congratulations to Your Highness......" Hearing the good news, Lu Wenzhao, who was standing in the study of the Qi Palace, couldn't help but congratulate him, while Zhu Youzhen chuckled and said:

"Send skilled craftsmen from the gunpowder bureau, cement yard, and iron-making yard to the Iwami area, and then tell Lu Jianxing and ask him to order Yan Siqi to recruit men, women and children, and do my best to mine Iwami silver mines."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youzhen's happiness could not be concealed.

The Iwami Silver Mine, also known as the Iwami Silver Mountain, was mined in this area for 400 years from 1526 to complete the mining of silver.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it accounted for one-third of the world's total silver production, making it the largest silver supplier in Asia.

From the 28th year of Wanli to the 8th year of the current Apocalypse, the annual output here is more than 3 million taels of silver, and from the 23rd year of Jiajing to the 100 years of the death of the Ming Dynasty, the total output is nearly 100 million taels of silver.

In fact, in terms of silver exports, Japan exported three to ten times more silver to Daming than the Europeans shipped American silver from the Americas.

During the period from the 28th year of Wanli to the 17th year of Chongzhen, the total amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty was about 180 million taels, with an average of more than 4 million taels per year, of which nearly 3 million taels flowed from Japan to the Ming Dynasty.

What is the significance of taking the Iwami Silver Mine, it is needless to say, under the free labor, if the financial income of the Ming Dynasty is not unexpected, it can increase the annual income of more than 3 million taels with the Iwami Silver Mine.

If a gunpowder sub-bureau were to be built in the Iwami area, this production could be increased considerably.

These millions of taels of silver will become an important support for the transformation of Daming's currency.

Thinking of this, Zhu You checked an account, if the currency transformation was carried out according to the means of minting coins, then with the annual silver inflow of nearly five million taels from Iwami and Shibosi, plus the cash income of the imperial court, then the Ming Dynasty could continue to carry out currency innovation at a rate of twenty million taels every year.

The silver circulation of the Ming Dynasty is only more than a billion taels at most, and at the rate of 20 million taels per year, the currency can be fully renovated in 60 years at most.

However, this is only theoretical, as in practice it will be much faster.

Zhu Youzhen asked Song Yingxing of the Armaments Institute that although the current steam engine has not completely solved the transmission problem, it already has a force of hundreds of catties.

Simply used to print silver coins, there is absolutely no problem, as long as the transmission problem is solved, the Ming Dynasty can produce exquisite silver coins and silver and copper coins in batches.

After raising the upper limit for making counterfeit money, no matter how powerful the counterfeit money dealers are, they will not be able to make counterfeit money in batches unless they get a steam engine.

If he can really figure it out, Zhu Youzhen will not only not be angry, but will be happy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also relaxed a little and said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Is there any news about Jianyu from Guo Sangdai's side?"

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen ask this, Lu Wenzhao hurriedly said:

"Guo Sangdai sent people to contact Huang Taiji in Shangjing last month, and according to them, there are no less than 600,000 mu of fields around Shangjing, as well as tens of thousands of Jurchens working and tens of thousands of Han people cultivating new fields."

"Huang Taiji wants Guo Sandai to submit to the Jin Kingdom, and Guo Sangdai wants to ask Your Highness what you mean."

"It's okay to surrender, but you need to ask Huang Taiji to allocate food to them." Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes.

It is true that Huang Taiji was a little surprised by the fact that he had reclaimed 600,000 mu of land, but if he said that 600,000 mu of land could satisfy the current Jianjiao, Zhu Youzhen did not believe this.

The grain yield per mu in Liaodong has been reduced by one and a half percent, and Shangjing, which is further north than Liaodong, may have dropped by more than two percent.

Under the same crop, 600,000 acres of fields can produce at most eighty percent of the yield per mu in the Guannai.

Last year, the yield per mu in the Great Wall was one stone, and the yield per mu of Yidonghe City in the north was only eight buckets.

From Shenyang to Yidong River City, it is only more than 400 miles, and the yield per mu has been reduced to this ghostly appearance, so the yield per mu in Shangjing may not even have seven buckets.

600,000 acres of land will produce more than 400,000 stone at most, and if you count other places, the total output of Jianyu will be less than 800,000 stone.

Zhu Youzhen has heard of the tragic situation of the Han people in Xingjing, so no matter how preferential Huang Taiji is in Shangjing, the number of Han people in Shangjing will not be much.

The population of Jianyu should be more than 400,000, more than 400,000 people, and the yield per mu is less than 800,000 stones......

Comparing this data, Zhu Youzhen sneered.

If one person has less than two stones, can a person survive? Nature can, but those who survive are no different from those who are hungry.

What's more, the Xiaoice River has cooled down, and the grain production has not yet reached its peak.

The speed at which the land is cultivated cannot be compared to the rate at which grain production is reduced.

There is no tritica, simply relying on millet and cold-resistant rice, and when the tens of thousands of Han people used as consumables are exhausted, Jianyu can only use Mongolians and their own people to make consumables.

However, there is another problem in this, that is, among the Han people who survived, many of them were family members of those Han battalion soldiers in the captivity.

Will these Han soldiers watch Huang Taiji and Nurhachi torture their families to death?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen had the idea of rebellion in his heart, and there was a good candidate.

"Let Guo Sangdai's people contact Liu Aita and see if they can plot against Liu Aita."

Zhu Youzhen spoke, and Lu Wenzhao was stunned when he heard this:

"Your Highness, that Liu Aita is the son-in-law of the old slave......"

"What about the son-in-law? lost the hearts of the Han battalion soldiers, can he still be the Han battalion forehead? ”

Zhu Youzhen knows people like Liu Aita too well, for them, what is a woman? Power is the ultimate pursuit.

If he loses the hearts of the Han soldiers, or if the Han soldiers rebel directly, then it is a sure thing that he will be implicated in death.

In this situation, Liu Aita will only make the right choice as in history......

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao saw Zhu Youzhen say this, and he could only let people pass on the news with the mood of giving it a try.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he picked up the song on the table, and frowned and looked at the local county government that asked for money and grain.

Many of these county officials are from Yanshan students, and their requests are really insufficient money and food?

Naturally not......

After the imperial court assumed the responsibilities of the soldiers and horses, the officials, and the scribes, the local government did not need to bear the expenses of these people, and the pressure was naturally much less.

The only thing that the county government needs to bear is the basic maintenance, as well as the food and horse feed of the yamen officials, officials and scribes.

So isn't the 10% of money and grain that the imperial court withheld for the local government enough?

The county that Zhu Youzhen has seen and withheld the least also has two hundred taels of interception, and these two hundred taels of interception, purely for food and horse feed, has long been enough for everyone in the local area to have four dishes and one soup.

Now they say that the silver taels and grain they have withheld are not enough, so it is not stupid, but bad......

Although he had made sufficient preparations, it had only been three years since the Yanshan students were decentralized, but many corrupt people had already been brewed, which caught Zhu Youzhen off guard.

He had thought that the Yanshan student officials would be corrupted after they were decentralized, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

It can only be said that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to resist if they fall into it.

Naturally, he could clean up these people, but not now......

At present, although these Yanshan officials are greedy, they can at least do things, and to deal with them, you must first deal with the most corrupt old-fashioned officials.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen was just about to free up his hands to deal with the music, but he didn't want to hear the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door.

After a few seconds, Lu Wenzhao walked into the house quickly, and said with a blue face:

"Your Highness, a civil uprising broke out in Luochuan County, Shaanxi, and Liu Si, a county citizen, raised his banner to rebel, gathered a crowd to attack the county government, killed Han Chao in Zhixian County, and looted the treasury ......"