Chapter 180: The Blood Cherry Blossom Project has officially begun.
"Hurry, hurry..."
It was dark in the middle of the night, and the sky was full of firelight.
A group of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion shuttled through the thatched bamboo huts.
"Enemy, fire!"
"Linen belt, we surrender!"
As soon as the team made a roundabout, it ran into seven or eight fleeing Japanese soldiers.
The two sides could not understand each other, and they could not understand what was being said.
The Shenji Battalion had no intention of capturing the prisoners, and directly raised their guns to shoot under the order of the squad leader.
"Bang bang bang..."
A burst of fire flashed, and seven or eight pirates fell down in half.
The rest cried and turned to run.
"Kill!"
Unfortunately, behind the Japanese invaders, a team of marines came out.
As soon as the two parties looked at each other, they cut directly with a knife without saying a word.
"Sun and Moon!"
"Mountains and rivers!"
The two sides quickly exchanged passwords, and the captains of the two squads came together.
"Do you know where the direction of the palace is?"
The captain of the Marine Corps bandaged the small wound on his hand while asking the captain of the Shenji Battalion, do you know the direction of the palace?
The squad leader of the Shenji Battalion rolled his eyes.
"I still want to know!"
The buildings inside Kyoto are too messy, with a pile of thatched houses and wooden houses and bamboo houses everywhere.
The soldiers rushed into the city, spreading out through the various passages throughout the city.
Now there are shouts of killing everywhere, and the night cannot be changed, many teams are lost, and almost wherever there is a killing shout, they go to whichever side there is.
"Damn, the king has promised, the first team to take the palace will be rewarded with one hundred taels each, and the emperor will be rewarded with silver ten thousand taels and promoted by two levels!"
"I can't get the fuck going, and it doesn't seem like it's our turn to take the credit."
The Marine squad leader cursed, gritted his teeth and tightened the bandage.
"Head... There was a very gorgeous garden over there, and there was a bright light, and there was no shouting of killing. ”
At this moment, a soldier of the Shenji Battalion who climbed to the roof of the wooden house suddenly pointed in a direction in surprise.
The two team captains below glanced at each other and stretched out their hands neatly.
"Cooperation!"
The two of them shook their hands vigorously, and then nodded in unison to beckon people to get ready to go.
Soon the two squads will converge.
The marines, who are mostly cold-armed, are in the front, and the Shenji battalion is armed with muskets to cover behind.
Today's war is a war of annihilation.
In the early days of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, many generals had the merit of destroying the country.
But until the founding of the country was old, the generals of the later generations did not make such contributions.
Today's battle is the first battle of national destruction in the true sense since Yongle ascended the throne.
Jiang Huai and Li Hu both wanted to compete for this opportunity.
Both of them gave orders to the following, and the first team to take the imperial palace was rewarded, and the emperor and important ministers were captured alive, and they were promoted to make a fortune.
The two commanding generals secretly competed for the honor of destroying the country.
The generals below are also crazy.
Although the honor of destroying the country will not fall on their heads, it is ironclad to be promoted and rich.
The soldiers at the bottom were for a high reward of silver.
When the decisive battle was launched in the afternoon, the two generals read out Zhu Zhangui's promise.
Whichever team captures the Little Wagua Palace first, this team will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver each.
Whoever catches the little Japanese Emperor, or an extremely important minister.
The emperor is worth 10,000 taels, and the ministers have different rewards depending on their status.
The lowest place is worth thousands of taels of silver.
Grab one of the cheapest ones, that is, 1,000 taels, a team of 10 people can divide it casually, and each person can get 100 taels of silver.
If you catch the most expensive emperor, each person can get at least 1,000 taels of silver, and the person who has the most credit can be promoted to two ranks.
How could this kind of earth-shattering bounty not make the soldiers go crazy.
Ordinary little gourd captives, they can't look down on them anymore, and now they don't care about the little gourd captives at all, and they cut them directly.
Everyone is frantically heading towards the palace, vowing to win the first merit one by one.
"Bang bang bang..."
The integration team, which went straight to the palace, once again encountered a team of small nests.
The integration team did not hesitate, and shot directly, knocking the opponent to pieces.
Then the swords, shields, and spearmen of the Marine War went up to make up for a few more swords, and it was soon over, and this simple battle was over.
"Whew..."
"How far is the brother!"
After firing the gun, the captain of the Shenji Battalion asked the captain of the Marine Corps who was climbing on the roof and looking into the distance while loading ammunition.
"They may also feel exposed, and now the lights are out and they can't see, but I don't think it's that far, and they should be able to get there just across the street."
"Okay, everyone hurry up and prepare the ammunition, the credit is in front of you, even if it is not the palace of the little nests, it is estimated that it is a big fish, everyone catches it, and the reward is enough for everyone to live a good life at home for a long time!"
The captain of the Shenji Battalion loaded his ammunition and cheered up the tired and panting soldiers.
The soldiers who were loading ammunition or taking time to eat something and drink some water to replenish their physical strength, thinking about the silver spent in vain, thinking of their families who were still working hard at home, swept away their exhaustion one by one, and their fighting spirit was instantly high.
"Brothers, the big money is rushing with me in front!"
The captain of the Marine Corps, who jumped from the room, waved the flintlock pistol in his hand, and the first one rushed out.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, we are already surrounded and have no way out."
In a large hall lit only by the light of a bean fire, the high-ranking officials of the Northern Dynasty and their emperor gathered around the lamp and discussed things nervously.
Hearing that there was no way out to run after being surrounded, the emperor looked at the minister with a sad face.
"Have you ever gone to their people and told them that we are willing to surrender unconditionally!"
The minister replied with a bitter face: "The people have been dispatched, but there is no news so far, I don't know if they were killed or ran away!" ”
"Eight Ga Ya Road!"
The Emperor angrily grabbed the last illuminator and slammed it to the ground, plunging the hall into pitch darkness.
The sound of Suosuo sounded, and when the minister who had spoken just now lit a lamp again, he was stunned to find that he was the only one left in the whole hall.
His Majesty the Emperor and several other important ministers had already disappeared just now while it was dark.
"Bagaya Road, what a bunch of cowards!"
The minister cursed in a low voice, but did not stop in the main hall, turned and ran out.
The palace warriors on duty, who did not know that their emperor and important ministers had already disappeared, still holding weapons and nervously watching the dark streets, guarding against enemies who would appear at any time.
"Stomp, stomp..."
Suddenly, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps.
The palace warriors who were vigilant looked at the voices one after another.
However, because he did not hold a torch for concealment, he could not see who was coming at all.
"What are you doing?"
The palace samurai officer, who couldn't see clearly, lowered his voice and asked the other side.
The messy footsteps suddenly stopped.
"There is enemy fire!"
Suddenly a loud roar rang out, followed by a thumping gunshot, followed by a chord.
"Yaga is an enemy, hurry up and release arrows to stop them."
As soon as the two sides exchanged hands, there was no idea of stopping at all.
The Marine shield soldiers in front of them are holding back the enemy's arrows with their shields.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion behind the shield, because there was no light, could not see where the enemy was, so they could only fire their guns indiscriminately according to the place where the sound just came from.
"Monkey monkey, do you still have a thunderstorm!"
The captain of the Shenji Battalion, who fired a shot into the darkness, felt that it was not a way to fight like this.
When it was dark, they had a hard time loading ammunition.
If you are not careful, you may let the gunpowder fall to the ground and the power of the musket will not be reached.
Glancing at the darkness in the distance, where arrows kept missing, the captain hurriedly called out to the grenadiers who were following behind with a few earth-shattering thunderbolts on their backs.
"Two more!"
Although the Grenadier is nicknamed Monkey, he is indeed very tall and has very thick arms.
The reason why I want to call him a monkey is because this guy learns monkey calls very similarly.
"Throw them all out!"
The captain of the Shenji Battalion quickly loaded the ammunition and ordered the grenadiers to quickly throw the Sky-Shaking Thunder over.
Hearing the order, the monkey did not hesitate, lowered his head and squeezed behind the shield hand in front, and then, with the help of the cover of the opponent's shield, took out the fire fold, took out a sky-shaking thunder, lit it, roared angrily, and threw it into the distance.
Then he quickly crouched down, lit the last one on fire, and threw it out vigorously.
"Boom!"
Two huge explosions, accompanied by firelight.
As the flames rose, both sides saw where the other was.
The soldiers of the combined team lined up, hiding behind the shieldbearers, and were slowly moving forward.
On the opposite side, fifty or sixty palace warriors were hiding behind the wooden walls of the palace, desperately shooting arrows at the side of the mixed team.
"Haha, it's really the palace, brothers, let's send it."
The captain of the Shenji Battalion, who saw the totem patterns on the wall clearly, shouted excitedly.
Before the battle, they had seen the appearance of the family crest of the little gourd royal family, so the squad leader recognized it at a glance.
"Brothers, life and death depend on fate, wealth is in the sky, whether you can get rich at one time, it depends on this trembling, kill me with me!"
The captain of the Marine Corps, who also saw the family emblem clearly, glanced at the captain of the god management squad next to him, who was excitedly loading ammunition, quietly kicked the shield hand in front of him, roared, and led people to charge.
"Fuck you bastard, I knew you weren't reliable."
The captain of the Shenji Battalion cursed, then quickly loaded the ammunition, pulled out the bayonet and stuck it in the muzzle.
"Brothers, the honor is just around the corner, the reward is waiting for us to pick it up, rush with me!"
The other soldiers of the Shenji Battalion pulled out their bayonets and stuck them in the muzzles of their guns, shouting and following the squad leader to attack.
And just as the two squads attacked, several more teams rushed over.
The marines of the Shenji battalion have them.
Others are not stupid either.
If you get lost, you will also stand on a high place and lock on to the target.
There are more and more teams coming, and the royal samurai, who were originally dominant, have become lambs to the slaughter.
A large number of soldiers stormed the palace.
Everybody's going crazy to grab people.
There was no way, they didn't know the appearance of the minister and the emperor, and in order to prevent the other party from getting mixed up in disguise or being killed by mistake, the soldiers simply didn't kill any of them, and directly arrested all of them.
"Crackling..."
It is inevitable that the action of arresting people will be a little bigger, and a lot of antique furniture is unlucky, rotten and broken.
A middle-level officer who rushed over, hearing the sound of ping-pong in the palace, helped his forehead with a headache, and roared at the top of his throat.
"Be careful with Lao Tzu, the king said, the antiques in this are going to be taken back to build a museum, and whoever wants to break them will be deducted from you."
A soldier who had just smashed a vase grinned at the sound of an angry roar.
This vase is expensive at first glance, and it is estimated that I can't afford to pay for my military salary for a lifetime.
Looking left and right, he saw that no officer was paying attention, and the soldier didn't care about the female prisoner he had just captured, and ran away with his gun on his shoulder.
"Their emperor and the national seal have not been found!"
Knowing that the soldiers had attacked the palace of Xiaogua, Zhang Xian, who couldn't sit still at the headquarters, hurriedly ran over.
As soon as he arrived at the place, he grabbed an officer of the Shenji Battalion and anxiously asked if there was an emperor who had caught the little gourd.
"Report to the deputy commander, I haven't found it yet, and the brothers are still looking around."
"Hurry, hurry..."
Zhang Xian urged the soldiers to hurry up and find them.
On the other side, Li Hu's adjutant general was also urging the soldiers of the Marine Corps to hurry up and find it.
The two stood in the main hall of the palace, smiling at each other.
But for some reason, there was a fierce sound of sparks rubbing in the air.
The first team to enter the palace, which has been confirmed, is a joint group with people from both sides.
So the two sides chose to share the credit evenly.
But the last credit for finding the emperor and the seal of the state cannot be lost.
The navy has the merit of breaking the enemy, and it is they who have blown up the defense of the city wall, and they have already won two great credits.
On the side of the Shenji Battalion, except for fighting some small fortresses on the way here, there has been no visible credit so far.
If the capture of the little Japanese Emperor and the credit for finding the national seal are taken away by the navy, then the Shenji Battalion will come in vain, and it will be completely for others.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who fought on the grassland and cried for their fathers and mothers, how could they stand this humiliation, and they desperately searched for it in the palace one by one with a sigh of relief.
The corners and the bottom of the roof of the well, as long as there are places where people can be hidden, have been searched.
There were even a few guys who turned over the skirts of the palace ladies to see if there were any Tibetans underneath.
In the backyard of the palace of the little Wagua, a soldier from the Shenji Battalion and a soldier from the Marine Corps searched the courtyard side by side.
With a bang, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion kicked open the hidden courtyard door.
As soon as the door opened, a smell of came out.
The two took a step back and looked inside, only to see several barrel trucks parked.
Looking at the big bucket in the car, the two quickly recognized that this was the bucket for collecting night incense.
"What fucking bad luck!"
Looking at the smelly barrel car, the Marines covered their noses and turned to search elsewhere.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were also about to leave, but when he turned around, he accidentally saw a very bright strip of cloth hanging from the corner of the barrel cart.
This is a soldier who has worked in the cloth workshop for a while, and knows a little bit about cloth and something.
This kind of bright fabric is simply not worn by ordinary people.
Looking at the parked barrel cart, the soldier narrowed his eyes and slowly retreated.
Closing the door that had been kicked open, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion looked at the Marines who had gone to search elsewhere.
With a smile, he quickly ran to the side of an officer of the Shenji Battalion who was directing the soldiers and searching around.
"Sir, I've found out what's going on!"
Hearing this, the officer covered his mouth and glanced at the Marine Corps officer who was also directing the soldiers to search in the distance, and the officer of the Shenji Battalion asked in a low voice.
"What's the matter?"
The soldier quickly recounted his findings.
The officer hesitated, although he felt that it was impossible to hide people in that place, but the palace had almost been searched, and the brothers patrolling outside did not find anyone escaped.
As for the secret rooms and secret passages, etc., they are still being searched for the time being.
After thinking about it, the officer waved at several soldiers in the distance.
Several soldiers of the Shenji Battalion ran over quickly.
The Marine Corps officer, who was directing the soldiers to search, saw this scene, his eyes lit up, his steps moved slightly, and he came over as if he didn't care.
"What do you want to do? Want to eavesdrop on secrets? ”
The officer of the Shenji Battalion, seeing that this guy came over shamelessly, glared at him viciously.
The Marine Corps officer smiled.
"Hehe, brother, I'm a little bored and want to talk to you."
The officer of the Shenji Battalion rolled his eyes, "Roll the calf, I don't want to talk to you." ”
After speaking, he pulled a few soldiers and quickly ran to the courtyard with the night fragrance car.
The Marine Corps officer would give up so easily, and with a wave of several soldiers, he rushed forward after him.
The courtyard door was kicked open again.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who were the first to rush in, were stunned for a moment when they looked at the scene in the courtyard.
I saw that on those night incense cars, a few people with extraordinary temperament at first glance, covered with filth, were crawling out from the inside.
"Haha, catch them when they're developed!"
The officer of the Shenji Battalion laughed, reached out and closed the door, blocking the door with his body, preventing the Marine officers who were following him from entering.
At the same time, he shouted for the soldiers to hurry up and arrest people.
"Don't move, get down and get down!"
The soldiers were also full of excitement, and rushed forward with guns in hand.
Ignoring the stench and filth on several people, he reached out and pressed several people to the ground.
One of the soldiers, with his free hand, also stirred in several large barrels with his gun.
While stirring one of the barrels, he suddenly felt what the bayonet in the muzzle was hanging?
He picked it up vigorously, and a filthy package appeared in front of his eyes.
Gu Buxiao stretched out his hand to untie the package, and a jade seal and a few strange things appeared in front of his eyes.
"The head has found the jade seal!"
The soldier shouted in surprise.
The officer of the Shenji Battalion, who was blocking the door with all his might, heard the soldiers shouting that he had found the jade seal, laughed loudly, and flashed to the side.
The door was kicked open again.
The officers of the Marine Corps looked at the few people who had been tied up, as well as the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were taking off their clothes and wrapping the jade seal in this direction.
A hint of annoyance flashed in his eyes.
If I had hurried up just now, I would have gotten one of them, even if I couldn't take them all.
The bowels of his heart were blue with remorse.
But although regretted, the Marine Corps officer did not give the order and let his men rob.
Both sides are fraternal troops.
Before I found it, it was okay to compete in private.
But once the merit is confirmed, if you rob it again, it will not only destroy the feelings of the brotherly troops, but also be severely punished by the superiors.
When the time comes, you won't be able to earn it without credit, and your head may not be able to keep it.
"Congratulations brother!"
The Marine Corps officer gave his hand to congratulate him.
The officer of the Shenji Battalion, who was in a very good mood, laughed and returned the salute.
"Today, my brother is one step ahead, and when I go back to Jingshi, I will invite my brother to drink and go to the best Qinglou!"
When the news reached the headquarters, Jiang Huai laughed and took the two pennies on the table into his arms.
Just now he made a bet with Li Hu, whose subordinates found the little gourd emperor and the jade seal first, who won.
Gambling money is a penny per person.
"Haha, brother, I won this one."
Touching the two coins in his arms, Jiang Huai laughed heartily, obviously he was very excited.
After today, the Royal Interior History will record.
The fifth day of the seventh month of Yongle 13.
The navy and the Shenji battalion cooperated to break through the imperial capital of Xiaogua, and the Shenji battalion captured the enemy emperor and found the jade seal.
He Jianghuai became the first famous general to destroy the country during the Yongle period.
While this may never be made public, the glory is real.
"Alas, you've made another profit!"
Li Hu on the side hammered the table in annoyance.
The two laughed and talked for a while, and then Li Hu said to Jiang Huai with a blank expression.
"Brother, since we've already hit this far, let's start the Blood Sakura Project directly!"
"After all, we have other countries to fight, and that is registered in the annals of history, which is much more glorious than fighting a small gourd."
Jiang Huai also nodded solemnly, but then couldn't help but laugh.
"Do you want to gamble again!"
Li Hu glanced at him and said unconvinced: "That's a land country, I bet with you with a navy, I'm sick!" ”
"Hahaha..."
JAC laughed again.
After laughing, the two glanced at each other, and each turned to the generals waiting behind them, and issued a blood cherry blossom plan that later historians would mention many times.
"By the order of the king, the Blood Cherry Blossom Project has been officially launched."