Bang! Bang! Bang!

Repeating guns, repeating guns use a multi-barreled device, which can fire multiple shells in a short time, which greatly increases the rate of fire and lethality of the artillery.

The firelight flickered at the dark opening.

Before the intercepted warship could resist, it was instantly shattered and sunk, and then bubbled up a few times on the water.

The first naval battle of the Daming Sea Division was a complete victory, ending the battle like a devastating one.

"But Erl."

Zhu Gaoxu stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the power of this artillery, and his heart was overjoyed.

Although Li Xiao invited Zhu Gaoxu to see it when he was testing the cannon two years ago, it was fired at the open ground at that time, and it was far less shocking than this time.

"Xiaolang, you are right, the improvement of science and technology has an incomparably great change in the situation of the war, whether it is a big ship or artillery, it has formed a crushing trend."

Zhu Ningyun stood at the bow of the boat, watching this scene, and was also overjoyed.

Over the years, my husband has been busy with his head and feet not touching the ground, and he often falls out of bed and sleeps, he is really not busy in vain, everything is prepared for today.

"That's right, in the future war, the advanced nature of weapons will occupy most of the factors."

Li Xiao pointed to the place where the warship sank and said, "Think about it from another perspective, if that small ship is ours and this big ship is the enemy's, no matter how many conspiracies and tricks we have, no matter how heroic the soldiers fight, it will not help." ”

Everyone nodded approvingly.

"The Ming army is mighty! The King of Han is mighty! ”

"The Ming army is mighty! Yongle Gong is mighty! ”

The soldiers on the ship shouted loudly, rejoicing at the first victory.

"Keep going!"

With Li Xiao's order.

The big ship headed for the Wa Kingdom, and along the way, it encountered several Japanese military ships, which were also easily sunk, and sailed towards Fukui of the Wa Kingdom, intending to land from there and kill directly in Kyoto.

Today, Wakoku is in the early days of the Muromachi period, and the political and cultural center is Kyoto.

Kyoto was one of the most important cities in Japan during this period, the capital of the Muromachi shogunate and the residence of the imperial family, as well as a cultural, artistic, and economic center.

At present, in the 11th year of the Shohei period of the Muromachi period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the person in power is called Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and Li Xiao intends to directly hold this person down and control the power of the Wa Kingdom.

Soon, the Daming treasure ship was about to dock, and there was actually a defensive military on the shore, but with a round of artillery bombardment, it was scattered.

The ship docked, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, Li Xiao, the prince of Yongle, Zhu Ningyun, Zhang Wu, Zhang Fu, the lord of Yong'an. and others landed with three thousand cavalry.

Because it was a long journey, I had to bring horses, and I didn't bring too many soldiers.

There were more than 4,000 people in total, of which more than 500 were sailors, people, etc. on board.

There were only 3,500 real soldiers, leaving 500 men on the ship, and the rest were all disembarked.

After disembarking, the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, mend knives and other work.

The generals sat cross-legged on the ground and began to discuss their next plans.

"How about attacking the next city first, using it as a base and resting?"

Zhu Gaoxu took the map of the Wa Kingdom, pointed to one of the counties, and said: "The front is Fukui County, if this map is correct, then we only need to take Fukui County as the base, and continue to fight towards Maimachi, Nishiami, and all the way along the way. ”

Li Xiao's map is of course right, the full HD world map produced by the system is in line with the current situation, but after Li Xiao's own copying, the drawing is relatively simple, saying that it was bought from the hands of the Japanese Kou.

After a short time, the generals discussed seven, seven, eight, eight.

"Newspaper—"

At this time, a scout came on horseback and said, "There is a group of foot soldiers coming towards this direction, but it seems that it is not organized, and it does not look like an army. ”

"Not like the army?"

Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly: "Don't be careless, prepare for battle!" ”

Then they led their cavalry in the direction of the group of foot soldiers.

Along the way, there were still many farmers farming on the road, but after seeing the troops, they fled when they heard the news.

Soon the two sides met in an open place, and Li Xiao found that the other party was really unorganized, just a group of ronins.

These ronins wore clogs, carried a katana at their waists, and had a forehead guard on their heads, but they were not armoured, and some of them wore samurai shirts and held shiny silver plates in their hands, which sparkled in the sunlight and constantly reflected a striking light.

They walked swaggeringly, looking extremely arrogant, and when they spoke, they had a hysterical feeling, and they showed that unruly smile at every turn, and from time to time, they also caused a group of people to laugh wildly.

Such a scene made Zhu Gaoxu and the others a little confused.

Zhu Gaoxu said strangely: "The army is trying to hide itself in every possible way, and these people seem to be afraid that we won't be able to find him. ”

Zhang Fu was also on guard and said: "Be careful, this group of people doesn't seem to take us seriously at all, so arrogant, there must be something extraordinary, and we have to guard against it." ”

Zhang Wu pondered: "There are almost five hundred people, and they seem to have seen us too, so why haven't they fled when such a force is suppressed?" ”

At this time, the leader of those ronins swaggered out, the samurai shirt was not fastened, and he opened his arms, and shouted: "Pi に言って、私たちが離れなければどうですか." 彼らを早くweaponを捨てて降参させなさい。 そうしないと、私たちの心を責めてはいけない。 ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned and looked at Li Xiao.

Li Xiao translated: "The army of the Ming Dynasty, leave quickly, otherwise don't blame us for being polite." ”

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said, "Tell him, what if we don't leave?" Let them disarm and surrender quickly, or don't blame us for being ruthless. ”

Li Xiao looked at the group of ronins and translated Zhu Gaoxu's words in Japanese.

The voice fell.

The group of ronins suddenly burst into laughter together, and the led ronin swaggered hundreds of meters away, pointing at Zhu Gaoxu with a katana and saying: "あなたたちは死んで、誰が廍で、私と一緒に出てきて人で選ぶ!" ”

Li Xiao translated again: "The man said: You are dead, who is the general, come out with me to fight alone." ”

"Heads-up??"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out his hand, "Take this king's bow." ”

The cavalry on the side handed the bow to Zhu Gaoxu, and then Zhu Gaoxu pulled his bow and arrows and aimed it at the ronin led by him.

In the past, when China fought wars, such as the Three Kingdoms period, those who could go to the battlefield at that time were nobles, and they were more obedient to the rules.

But that era is long gone, and heads-up is no longer in vogue

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu's bow and arrow were already aimed at the leader of the ronin.

"Yaga. Don't these people follow the spirit of bushido, cowards, cowards! I've already proposed a heads-up, and he doesn't dare! ”

Seeing that the other party didn't pay attention to it, the ronin turned and fled.

Phew-

But as soon as he escaped a few steps, an arrow pierced the head of the ronin leader with unmistakable accuracy, and this person's arrogant face froze this moment forever, lying on the ground, bleeding nonstop.

"Kojiro was killed, and we fought with them!"

"Kill them and avenge Kojiro-sama!"

"Rush, kill these outsiders and let them know how powerful our samurai are!"

The group of ronins exploded in an instant, and one by one they raised their katana swords and rushed towards Li Xiao's army.

In addition to samurai, there were also archers, as well as ronins with bird-wielding shackles.

But apparently there was no organization, just a group of people rushing over.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Zhu Gaoxu did not send people to charge, but released the arrows first.

Because he found that this group of people did not have armor, not even a shield, and a rain of arrows was enough for them to drink a pot.

Woooo

Arrows were fired at the ronin.

"Ahh

"Ahh Yes!! ”

"Yaga!"

Soon, the ronins were struck, and arrows rained down, and they fell to the ground.

Sure enough, this group of people did not have an immortal body, but they were so arrogant, Zhu Gaoxu and the others thought that they had something powerful, and as a result. That's it?

However, it is worth mentioning that these people seem to have some martial arts.

Some people are quick enough to dodge arrows, and some can block arrows with a katana, which seems to have been practiced since childhood, but that's it.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, this group of troops that lack organization, even if their individual martial arts are stronger, have no big effect, and they fight in a disorderly manner.

The most important thing is that this group of people doesn't seem to be afraid of death, if it is an ordinary army, if they hit here, they will probably run away, and this group of people are staring at each other like copper bells, and they rush madly.

"Sharpshooters, prepare!"

Zhu Gaoxu ordered again, the troops alternated, the sharpshooter team walked in front, pointed the muzzle of the gun at those people, he waved his hand again, and commanded loudly: "Shoot!" ”

Bang bang bang!!

The gunfire rang out constantly, and those who rushed from the rain of arrows were instantly faced with a round of musket fire.

Unlike the current three-eyed gun of the Ming Dynasty, this is a new type of musket called the flintlock pistol.

Flintlock pistols used a flint stone called flint to ignite the gunpowder, which propelled lead bullets or bullets out of the chamber.

The current three-eyed gun of the Ming Dynasty fires extremely slowly, and it needs to be filled with gunpowder to ignite the fire line before it can be fired, and if the gunpowder is wet, it will often be dumbfounded.

This flintlock pistol is different.

In use, the gunner needs to place the bullet in the chamber of the gun, and then pull the bolt to contact the flint lock with the powder cartridge, creating a spark that detonates the gunpowder and pushes the bullet out.

Two hundred sharpshooters, alternating back and forth, fired very quickly.

Soon, before the group of warriors rushed in front of Zhu Gaoxu's army, there were only a hundred people left.

"Run away, this group of people don't talk about martial arts, and they don't fight with us at all!"

"Damn, what's the matter with their muskets, how can they shoot so fast."

"Run away, don't worry about so much, General Imagawa is afraid that he will use us as cannon fodder to consume these people's troops."

"Yes, yes, we are being used, this group of people is not at all what General Imagawa said, very weak, on the contrary, they are too strong."

Seeing that the situation was not right, the ronin dropped their weapons and fled in reverse.

Even if you're not afraid of death, but you can't rush through, it's not worth dying.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu had another round of musket shots, killing more than 50 people, and the rest escaped from the range of muskets.

"The last general will send someone to chase after him!" Zhang Fu walked out.

"No, these people don't even have a horse, and they wear wooden shoes, how far can they run?" Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and said with a smile: "We will follow behind us slowly, let them show us the way, just to find their lair." ”

That's it.

Zhu Gaoxu first swept the battlefield, mended the knives of these ronins, killed them all, and looted the loot.

There are not many good things, except for some copper coins of the Wa Kingdom, the most valuable ones are those katanas.

Someone noticed that the katana was of excellent quality, so they put the katana away.

Then, Zhu Gaoxu led the large army slowly and leisurely, following behind the group of fleeing ronins.

Along the way, everyone found that there were many peasant households and women in strange clothes in this place, all of whom were civilians, and Zhu Gaoxu's troops were very disciplined, and no one went to kill these civilians casually.

Soon, they arrived in Fukui, a dilapidated city.

The city wall is even about the same height as the county city wall of the Ming Dynasty, as if it was made of mud, for such a city, it only needs to be attacked by cannons, and it can be easily broken.

"Let us in, these people are demons."

"We are no match for them at all."

"The Great Ming Kingdom is too strong, they have muskets that can fire continuously."

Now, the gates are firmly closed, and the ronins are crying incessantly to enter the city.

The soldiers on the city wall are all wearing black armor, and it can be seen that those are the real soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom.

The ronin is a group of samurai class in the Wa Kingdom, they have been practicing martial arts since they were children, and they are not engaged in production, but they will not be ordinary soldiers, and they generally follow the big family, these people are generally more arrogant, and they are used by the big family to control the people below.

And those ronins just now were all released as cannon fodder.

The general named Imagawa on the city wall did not mean to open the castle.

He held a telescope and could see behind the ronin, the Ming army had already come over, and looking at the flag fluttering in the wind, his face changed.

The well-equipped Ming cavalry, as well as the talented warriors shouted magical muskets, and he also got the news about the things on the other side of the port, the extremely powerful artillery.

I am not the opponent of these Ming troops at all.

Since you can't beat it. Then join

Why not use them to deal with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Muromachi shogunate, who is already firmly in power?

It turned out that at this time, the Wa Kingdom had just ended the war, and the princes of various places were not united, and this one called Jinchuan was the controller of a big family, and he belonged to one of the defeated princes of the Southern Dynasty.

He had always been dissatisfied with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's rule.

However, the strength is not enough, so I can only obey.

Now it seems that the opportunity has come

"Haha, there is an old saying in Huaxia, where the blessing of misfortune is relied on, and where the blessing of misfortune is lurking, this is an opportunity for my Jinchuan family!"

General Kanegawa muttered to himself, pondered for a moment and made up his mind.

He ordered: "Shoot all the ronins below and express our sincerity to the army of the Great Ming Kingdom." ”

Order.

The arrows were shot at the ronins below, killing them all in a short time.

These ronins never dreamed that they would not only be used as guns, but also abandoned.

General Kanegawa himself had a white flag erected on the city walls.

shouted at Li Xiao and the others: "The army of the Ming Kingdom, friends who came from afar, just now the bad ronin in my city intruded on you, I apologize, can you sit down and talk?" ”

Afar.

Zhu Gaoxu and the others were a little confused.

As soon as he arrived, the other party put up a white flag, looking like he was going to surrender.

Hey. Is this a mutiny?

Li Xiao was also a little unexpected, and translated to Zhu Gaoxu and others: "They are about to surrender and want to talk to us." ”

"Talk? There won't be a fraud, right? ”

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a while and said, "Brother-in-law, you let them open the city gate and let the general drop his weapon to talk." ”

Afterwards, Li Xiao rode over and began a friendly exchange.

After some exchanges, Li Xiao probably learned that this was what the other party meant: The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and we are willing to follow you to unify the Japanese country

"I see."

Li Xiao suddenly realized, and suddenly thought that in history, during the Jiajing period, there was a big Japanese leader named Wang Zhi, who was a person from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming version of One Piece.

He led the cavalry to beat all the princes of the Wa Kingdom, subdued many of the princes for his own use, and almost directly occupied the Wa Kingdom.

At that time, Wang Zhi couldn't even do the Ming Dynasty general Yu Dayou, and defeated the Japanese country, but when he came to the Japanese country, he suddenly became like a fish in water, and he found that the Japanese people were too easy to bully.

At that time, there were princes such as Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the melee was at a fever pitch.

Wang Zhi made huge profits by selling arms, recruited troops and horses in the Japanese Kingdom, dominated the eastern seas, rampaged the princes of the Warring States, and seized Hirado Matsutsuura, the island of Kyushu in the Japanese Kingdom.

The establishment of the country, the country name of the Great Song, known as the King of Hui in history, the establishment of the imperial court.

His subordinates were all deployed in accordance with the system to establish official titles and jurisdiction over the inhabitants and pirates of 36 large and small islands such as the Ryukyus.

In this way, Wang Zhi became the first and only Chinese in history to divide the territory of the Wa Kingdom, be looked up to by all the princes of the Wa Kingdom, and establish their own state on the territory of the Wa State.

However, Wang Zhi was finally killed by Hu Zongxian.

Wang Zhi, who can't even do Hu Zongxian, can be powerful and prosperous in the Japanese country, and you can imagine how weak the current Japanese country is

Li Xiao looked at his current configuration, the generals were Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang Wu, Zhang Fu and others, I don't know how much stronger than Hu Zongxian, and the weapons were more advanced than at that time.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao opened his mouth to negotiate and let that Jin Chuan come down by himself, otherwise he would start attacking.

That Jin Chuan was also a sincere person, so he immediately opened the city gate and ran over with a few people on horseback, with a flattering look on his face.

"You, including your army, surrender to the King of Han, and we will take Kyoto and share the country!" Li Xiao opened his mouth and said temptingly.

Zhu Gaoxu whispered on the side: "Brother-in-law, is it necessary to pay attention to these wastes?" Now it seems that this group of people is not vulnerable at all. ”

After two battles, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly discovered that the ability of these Japanese people to fight was really worrisome, and he didn't pay attention to it at all.

Li Xiao said with a smile: "It's good to have such a group of people as cannon fodder in front, reduce our damage, in addition, they are familiar with the terrain and can also provide us with intelligence, why not, as for sharing the country, we also need doglegs to help control here, why not find a puppet now?" I think this Jinchuan is very good, it surrendered quickly, and it looks like a traitor. ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, it was still the case, and laughed: "It's still my brother-in-law who is thoughtful, so let's do it, but after entering the city, we still have to be careful." ”

Li Xiao and the two talked face-to-face, and Jin Chuan couldn't understand Chinese at all, thinking that they were discussing, complacent, and admiring their plan.

"I'm willing to surrender!"

Jin Chuan said: "But to share the country, we have to sign an agreement." ”

"No problem."

For this small request, Zhu Gaoxu agreed, and the agreement has a fart this year.

That's it.

The army swaggered into Fukui Castle.

Zhu Gaoxu asked the soldiers to be more vigilant and be careful of deception.

However, after staying for a few days, it was found that the gang seemed to have really surrendered.

When General Jinchuan saw Zhu Gaoxu, he nodded his head.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered anything, and this Jinchuan general stood straight, bowed ninety degrees, and then shouted vigorously: "Hey! Han Wang Sang, his subordinates must do it. ”

There are 10,000 soldiers of the Jinchuan family.

It took Zhu Gaoxu a few days to integrate them into the Ming army.

He found that the combat effectiveness of this army was really worrying, but it was still very good as cannon fodder.

After organizing the army, Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Brother-in-law, how do you call this army?" ”

Li Xiao thought for a while and said, "They are not worthy of being our Ming army, so it is better to call them the puppet army."

The words are divided into two ends.

Zhu Yuanzhang on the other side, when he first arrived to buy melons on the road in Beiping, he fainted after learning of the cancellation of the military household.

"Master Huang, Master Huang!"

Erhu was sweating profusely in a hurry, ready to be hugged to the car, and called Lang Zhong for treatment.

"It's okay, it's just that the weather is too hot, and I have heat stroke."

The man who bought melons immediately took out a small bottle from his pocket and prepared to pour it into Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth.

"What are you doing here?"

Erhu immediately stopped it.

This is not a joke, anything can be poured into His Majesty's mouth?

"This is Huoxiang Zhengqi water, which specializes in relieving heat stroke, I think this old man is suffering from heat stroke, just drink it."

The young man was also a little upset when he saw the obstruction, but he still explained.

Erhu frowned and said, "You are a melon seller, can you still cure diseases?" ”

The young man said angrily: "These small illnesses have been publicized in the newspapers, to solve some small problems, you don't need to find a doctor, if you don't want to, just find Langzhong yourself, this place is far away from Beiping City, I don't think you can get to the city after dark!" ”

Hearing this, Erhu was a little helpless, so he had to ask: "Is it the recipe written in the newspaper?" ”

Erhu knew in his heart that the newspaper was issued by Li Xiao, and Li Xiao was a miracle doctor, maybe he could really do it, but a melon seller could also use medical skills, which surprised him a little.

The young man said: "Yes, the newspaper says that mosquito bites use wind oil essence, heat stroke uses Huoxiang Zhengqi water, diarrhea uses diarrhea to stop immediately. These are all things that Peking people are so familiar that they can't be more familiar with them, small illnesses and pains, and there is no need to look for Langzhong at all. ”

Erhu frowned and said, "Why do you carry medicine with you at any time?" ”

The young man frowned and said, "Because it's hot here, I'm afraid that the guests will suffer from heat stroke, isn't it normal to carry it with me?" ”

"I'm sorry, can you show me. Thank you."

Erhu took the young man's medicine bottle, then drank a little by himself, waited for a while, felt that it was not poisonous, and then poured it into Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth.

"The heart of a villain."

The young man was a little unhappy and snatched Huoxiang Zhengqi Water back.

Xindao, the melon has not been sold today, and it has lost Huoxiang Zhengqi water.

Erhu was about to say something, and suddenly found that Zhu Yuanzhang really opened his eyes.

Zhu Yuanzhang did have some heat stroke, and he was so angry just now that he fainted, but now he has Huoxiang Zhengqi water, and he soon woke up.

"You're a melon seller, and you'll be cured?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang woke up, after learning the ins and outs of the matter from Erhu's mouth, he looked at this young man in surprise.

"Don't open your mouth to buy melons, close your mouth to sell melons, we also have tempers, okay."

The young man said unhappily: "Do you want to buy this melon, after selling this batch, I can go to the farmers' market to buy a new batch of melons."

"Buy, buy."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "The second tiger took out the silver." ”

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang noticed something and asked, "Huh?" Didn't you grow this melon yourself? ”

The young man smiled, "All the land in Beiping has been collected, we don't have any land, what kind of melons to plant?" The land has been contracted to large households, and this is the goods purchased from the farmers' market. ”

What!!

Zhu Yuanzhang was dizzy again.

Li Xiao actually took all the land of the common people??

The people don't even have land?

can only be reduced to selling melons???

Outrageous!!!

Zhu Yuanzhang's beard stood up again.

But this time he didn't faint, the second tiger put the watermelon in his mouth, and Zhu Yuanzhang took a bite hard to quench his thirst

(End of chapter)