During the Heian period, Japanese pirates were mainly coastal fishermen, and most of them robbed with small sampans.

Going to the coast of Goryeo was already their limit, and they did not reach the hard power of China.

The Seto Inland Sea was a no-go zone for pirates, and during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa, pirates from the western countries came to wander here, and they were soon hit hard by the official navy. Taira Tadashi was also ordered to lead the central naval army to kill the pirate lair on the other side of Kyushu Island.

As for the Japanese navy, the appearance of the main battleship is very similar to that of the Tang envoy ship. The longest is about 30 meters, with one deck, equipped with sails, paddles on both sides, and can carry 150 people.

Moreover, the number of capital battleships is not large, the rest are all small ships, and even a large number of flat-bottomed ships exist.

The Ming Navy sailed into the Seto Inland Sea, and Heiankyo immediately became popular.

Because the Seto Inland Sea is Japan's "maritime highway", not to mention the arrival of the Chinese Navy, even a few more pirates will affect the economy.

The Chinese naval ships reached Osaka, and the Japanese navy fled and waited for an order from Emperor Toba.

Five hundred armor soldiers were the first to disembark, followed by dozens of cavalry.

After all the infantry landed, some of the navy were on guard at the shore, and some went to cruise nearby.

What is presented in front of everyone's eyes is Namba Kyo, Japan's former vice-capital, which is the political stage for Japan's Taihua reform.

The layout of the entire city is modeled after Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.

Even some street names are directly copied from the streets in Chang'an City.

Located in the north of the city center is the Namba Imperial Palace.

It is the earliest formal continental-style palace in Japan, and it is also modeled after the imperial city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Now destroyed by fire for hundreds of years, the Japanese legend says that the palace was cursed because it was built by cutting down the trees around the shrine.

Although the imperial palace was destroyed, the remains of the imperial city are still there.

When the Ming soldiers landed, many nobles, monks and heroes gathered with various armed forces towards the ruined city wall.

Because apart from the ruined walls of the Namba Imperial Palace, there are no other walls to defend in the whole of Osaka.

To say that it is a city wall is to lift it up.

Only the wall at the city gate is still formal, and the rest of the place is similar to the wall of the landlord's house. Moreover, many of the foundation stones were dug up and stolen by the monks to build the monastery.

There were two leaders of the defenders.

One is called Fujiwara for the house, which is the ancestor of the Uesugi clan.

One is called Monk Zhennian, who is the abbot of the Da Nian Buddhist Temple.

With political corruption and social darkness, the original Buddhist school in Japan has gradually declined, and the "Ninbutsu school" has become more and more prosperous in the past two hundred years.

The Nenbuddha sect belonged to the pioneer of the Pure Land sect in Japan, and from the very beginning it was committed to the sinking market and won the support of the general public. Gradually, not only the wealthy and the merchants believed in this thing, but also the low-level nobles and even the middle and high-ranking nobles began to believe.

At this moment, more than 2,000 people are guarding the ruined imperial city, most of them belong to monks and soldiers, and the rest are warriors at all levels.

As for the peasant soldiers, there is no time to gather them for the time being.

As the Ming army approached step by step, the monk Zhennian said: "In the era of the end of the law, the heavenly demons descended into the world, this is a test for us." ”

The later Japanese Tendai sect was still known as the Lotus sect at this time.

The abbots of the Osaka Hokke sect were not happy to hear this. But they are not in the mood to argue, who made the Buddhism here in Osaka the strongest in the Buddhist sect that has been making noise about the coming of the end times for several days?

It was only three years since the completion of the Da Nian Buddhist Temple.

However, before the temple was built, the Ninbutsu sect was full of believers in Osaka. The surrounding big and small lords, the big and small merchants in the city, and many middle and low-level nobles, everyone is afraid of the end times, as long as they chant the Buddha, they can avoid the disaster.

……

After entering the city, Zhu Xiaozhong felt that he had returned to the Central Plains.

It is completely different from Iwami National Castle, and the layout of the city is similar to that of Chang'an and Luoyang.

The streets and houses are neatly repaired like chessboards, the shop signs are all in Chinese characters, and there are also divisions of the chambers, and the names of the chambers are the same as those in China (directly copied from them).

Between the squares, there are wooden fences separating them, and even the doors of the squares are erected.

The civilians in the city who did not flee have now hidden, peeking through the cracks in the doors and windows to see the intruders.

Zhu Xiaozhong borrowed several naval guns from Yingxuan and pushed them to Namba Palace by shipwrights and gunners.

Zhu Shouyi led the cavalry to gallop around the abandoned imperial city, shooting some arrows from inside the wall from time to time.

He rushed back and reported: "The walls are very low, they have collapsed in many places, and the gaps have been temporarily blocked. Even if there is no gap, such a low wall can rush straight in. ”

"Shell first." Zhu Xiaozhong said.

The cavalry, led by naval artillery, went to the four gaps in the walls, and the infantry was divided into four teams to protect them.

The Japanese defenders were nervously defending, but they saw the Ming soldiers pushing out strange objects.

"Boom, boom!"

A few cannons rang out, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

The samurai and monks were startled and looked at the sky, believing that it was really thunder.

It's a pity that there was no thunder in the sky.

Instead, outside the city walls, artillery was smoking.

Continue to reload, shell again.

This time, I can finally be sure that those Tang people can summon thunder and lightning!

"The Tang people are in Yulei again!"

A large armored samurai shouted, this guy had obviously been to the battlefield of Iwami Province, and at this moment he had been reminded of that terrifying memory.

Fujiwara was the first to escape with the samurai, and he was more well-informed and knew how Taira Tadashi was defeated.

As soon as the nobles of the Fujiwara family fled, the samurai also fled, and in the blink of an eye, only the monks were still defending the city.

The abbots looked at each other, then at the fleeing samurai.

Before the third round of shelling, the great monks also ran away with the monks. They were invited by Fujiwara to serve the house, and the main owner ran away, and the monks and soldiers were still guarding a fart, so they went home to guard the temple.

"Arrest someone!"

Zhu Xiaozhong gave an order, and the cavalry had already pursued along the abandoned city wall.

Fujiwara was wearing a large armor on his body, and he couldn't run fast on horseback. The horse stopped, let Lang Dang take off his armor, discarded a pair of gorgeous ancestral armor directly, and then got on the horse lightly and ran fast.

He fled straight down the river in the direction of Heiankyo, and from time to time he looked back to find that the pursuers were capturing his Lang Party.

"Dada-da-da!"

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and when Fujiwara turned around again, he found that six horsemen had already approached.

Shout!

An arrow came and flew past Fujiwara's head.

This thing was so frightened that his scalp was numb, and he felt that he couldn't escape, so he simply shouted: "Surrender!" I'm a nobleman of the Fujiwara Kita family, and I can pay a high ransom! ”

Not only did he know how Taira Tadashi had been defeated, but he also knew that the captured noble samurai would be released safely as long as they paid the ransom.

Fujiwara was bound for the house, but the Ming cavalry was not used to it, and directly pressed it to the ground and tied it.

"I'm a nobleman, you can't do that...... Phew! Fujiwara struggled and screamed for the room, his face pressed and ate a few mouthfuls of dirt.

Zhu Xiaozhong stood on the ruins of the Namba Imperial City, looked at the ruins and broken walls, and said with great disdain: "This is also called Vice-Kyoto? Outside the palace is a low wall. ”

In fact, there were not only low walls, but also moats in the past.

It's just that it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and the moat has been undesilted and filled with mud and all kinds of debris.

Even at this time, Heianjing was built in the same way - imitating the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, but the outer city was not protected by a city wall, and the imperial city was surrounded by a moat, separated by a low wall on the inner side of the moat.

In terms of its defensiveness, it is not even as good as the county seat of Daming.

The Japanese capital of the Nara period actually had a mountain castle defense system, and it was really difficult to take it easily if it was forcibly attacked. However, since then, the capital has been moved three times in succession, each time imitating the construction of Chang'an City, and there is no manpower and material resources to build the city, so the most important city wall can only be abandoned.

In other words, Emperor Toba at this time, if he wanted to defend Heiankyo, he didn't even have a decent city wall!

……

"What to do? The Tang people have captured Nambakyo! Emperor Toba asked anxiously.

He not only summoned his own court officials and northern samurai, but also a bunch of officials from the court, as well as monks and onmyoji in the capital.

Chengping has been peaceful for hundreds of years, and during this period, the mob was suppressed, and even the central army was disbanded for two or three hundred years.

Even if a few monks were doing evil, Emperor Shirakawa was afraid that he would not be able to defeat the monks, so he sent his confidant Ping Zhongsheng to arrest him.

With such a waste of martial arts, what can be used to resist the invasion of foreign enemies?

Ping Zhongsheng suggested: "Your Majesty can hunt in the east." ”

"Never!"

Minister of Regent Fujiwara Tadamichi immediately objected.

The interests of the Fujiwara family are mainly in the region, and once Emperor Toba runs away, what will happen to the Fujiwara family's property?

What's even more terrifying is that if the region is destroyed, it is very likely that Emperor Toriyu will move the capital. If the Fujiwara North family follows, they have to lead people to start over, and if they don't follow, they will stay away from the political center.

Although he didn't like his eldest son, Fujiwara Tadashi, for the sake of the family's interests, Fujiwara Faithful still agreed: "Your Majesty can't hunt in the east, you should send someone to negotiate in the Ming Kingdom." ”

Emperor Toba looked at the monk and the onmyoji again: "Can't you defeat the Ming army?" ”

The mages fell silent.

In Heian period Japan, superstition was unreasonable.

The onmyoji have the strongest business ability, and they directly say that Heiankyo is a demon cave, and from time to time a hundred ghosts will have to walk at night. And they don't kill, they only drive away or seal demons, so the nobles' homes are haunted from time to time, and they need to ask the onmyoji to exorcise the demons again and again.

Two hundred years ago, Sugawara Michizane was framed for rebellion and died of illness in his penal colony.

Unexpectedly, the Imperial Palace was suddenly struck by lightning, and the Emperor hastened to pardon his children. He also thinks that Sugawara Michi's true resentful spirit can already summon thunder and lightning, and directly canonize him as the god of learning.

Because the protector of the Fujiwara clan is the god of thunder, the Fujiwara clan also began to worship this person, and also built a special shrine for Sugawara Michizane.

Now that the army can't handle it, Emperor Toba naturally thinks of using spells.

Seeing that the mages dropped their chains at a critical moment, Emperor Toba asked Ping Zhongsheng again: "Can you resist the Tang people?" ”

Ping Zhongsheng replied: "The minister can only fight to the death. ”

can only fight to the death, that is, most of them can't be beaten, Emperor Toba was speechless.

After a long time, Emperor Toba asked, "Did the prince of Ming Province just ask for Tsushima Province and then lease Iwami Kunijo and Mt. Omori?" ”

Oe Weishun said: "A few days ago, there was news that the Ming army occupied Sado Country, and it may be that the appetite is even greater now. If we don't negotiate as soon as possible, I'm afraid that the Ming Congress will ask for more. ”

"That'...... Let's talk. Emperor Toba said.

He can only rejoice that his son has not yet been served.

Otherwise, it would be even more dangerous for the Fujiwara family to take control of the emperor and force Emperor Toba to abolish the government immediately.

(There is too little detailed information about the Heian period, and this chapter is a headache.) It's gone today, and it's three more tomorrow. ）

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