Chapter 309

Life is impermanent, and the large intestine encompasses the small intestine.

Just on the small day, the samurai fantasized that when they arrived on Kyushu Island, the Ming fleet would be overturned by the kamikaze, and they would be able to defeat the landing force of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, become famous all over the world, and become the strongest feudal domain of the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, as soon as they went to sea, they encountered the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy, and in the Fourth Fleet, with the absolute superiority of naval guns, it only took half an hour of fighting, and more than 200 troop carriers of the Changzhou Domain, except for 17 troop carriers and five Dutch armed merchant ships, a total of 22 large and small ships of all sizes, had time to surrender to the Fourth Detachment of the Ning Navy.

In the words of the captured Dutch East India Company Commercial Commissioner Netherlands: "The Ming army fired at us with thousands of naval guns at the same time, firing several tons of shells in a single salvo, and even if God was to command the battle, the outcome would be the same!" ”

Of course, the Ning Navy was still very merciful, and after the battle was over, four search and rescue ships were sent to be responsible for fishing up the Xiao Ri warrior who had fallen into the water, however, after a Ning Navy medic was injured by an angry dwarf, the Ning Navy was so angry that he shot at the sea with a thunderbolt.

After half an hour of search and rescue, only more than 1,400 Xiaori warriors survived, and they surrendered to the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy along with 22 transport ships as a whole.

After sinking the troop transport fleet of the Choshu Domain, the Fourth Fleet of the Ning Navy divided more than 400 sailors, sank the small troop carriers that had no value, and then took more than 1,400 small days prisoners and stuffed them into five armed ships of the Dutch East India Company.

Located in today's Kohiyamaguchi Prefecture and surrounded by the sea on three sides, Ogijo is a major transportation point connecting Kori Honshu Island and the Korean Peninsula.

Leaning on the sea, the life of the Choshu Domain was quite good, at least the nobles of the Maori family had seafood pufferfish to enjoy, and they feasted on it.

Now the wharf of the city is busy, a large number of cargo ships and fishing boats are parked in the port, loading and unloading goods, workers who rely on hard work to make a living carry heavy goods on the boats and run up and down the boats, some fishing boats start to sell as soon as they dock at the port, and the chefs sent by the hotel are also waiting there early, and the fishing goods come forward to pick fat and thin and bargain as soon as they get off the boat.

The pursuit of "freshness" of seafood is almost pathological, they think that seafood is still the first fresh in the sea, and after catching it, it will be a little second, and when it comes to the shore, it will be the next first, and when it is put on the stall to sell, it will wait again.

However, in this bustling port, the fishermen and chefs who were spitting all over the place choked up, because they were shocked to see dozens of warships heading towards the pier!

Where did this fleet come from? Why is the scale so scary?

There was no time for them to ponder slowly, this huge fleet rushed at high speed, in the strong sea breeze, the screams came one after another, and the sixteen leading Sea Shark-class warships with the Sun and Moon Flag roared wildly, the smoke and flames rushed, and thousands of fiery red meteors rushed up obliquely, pulling the white tail smoke towards the ships moored in the harbor and the densely populated docks, this terrifying scene made everyone jaw-dropping.

Amaterasu, where did we offend you, and we got such a demon fleet to fight against us without saying a word?

Amaterasu didn't answer, just watched sadly in the clouds as the rocket shells turned into a dense rain of fire covering the port and docks. In the thunderous explosion roar, the flames and flying sand rolled and merged into a series of fiery red walls rising from the ground, and the people and all kinds of messy things were mixed together and blown to the sky by the terrible deflagration hurricane, and the entire port was in flames......

Kagoshi, located in the Satsuma Domain, saw that the kamikaze was not blowing as usual, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa, who was already in a food crisis, had to negotiate with the lords of Kyushu to send troops for a decisive battle, but they had just completely assembled their troops, but the Ning Navy rarely left the camp, and one hundred and ninety-six six-mounted rocket launchers fired more than 3,000 rockets at the Xiaori Battalion.

Bombing the entire Kyushu coalition army camp into a sea of fire, Shimazu Mitsuhisa saw that the Ming army did not take the opportunity to cover up, so he calmly counted the losses, not a little bit is okay, this, their hearts hurt, the nine armies of the Kyushu coalition army together, there are only more than 22,000 people left, that is to say, the Ming army just now lost 15,000 people in a round of fierce attack, such a heavy loss, the Kyushu feudal lords have never suffered.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa came from the sorrow, knelt down in the blood and cried, Kuroda Xingji roared like thunder, brandished a katana and slashed wildly at a wooden stake, like crazy, and the people around him hid far away, for fear that this madman would give him a knife.

At this time, a scene that Shimazu Mitsuhisa never dreamed of was released, Kuroda Yukiji led more than 4,000 soldiers of the Fukuoka Domain to raise the butcher's knife to the samurai of the Shimazu family.

The soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, who were caught off guard, were defeated by the soldiers of the Fukuoka Domain, and they were unable to form an effective resistance.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu let out a wild howl like a wounded beast: "Kuroda! You'll regret it! I'm going to kill you......"

It's a pity that Kuroishi Yukiji is not used to the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, and he kills even more vigorously.

This scene fell in the eyes of Admiral Ning, which made them unbelievable.

"Dashuai, why did Xiao Ri fight with himself?"

Sun Kewang asked puzzled.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Actually, it's very simple, the Kuroda family governor of the Fukuoka Domain, Kuroda Tadayuki, sent someone to talk to Ben Shuai, and Ben Shuai told Kuroda Tadayuki's envoy that our army sent troops to Japan this time, mainly to punish the Satsuma Domain for invading the Ryukyu Islands for no reason, and it has nothing to do with them, after the Satsuma Domain is eliminated, we will withdraw our troops, and the land and population of the Satsuma Domain will belong to his Kuroda family!" ”

"They won't believe it easily, will they?"

"Yes, so Ben Shuai used more than 3,000 rockets and artillery shells to make them recognize the reality and make our Ming enemies, they have no way out!"

"Handsome and smart!"

"Gao Ming, this is the favorite strategy of our ancestors, and we have been playing it for thousands of years."

Sun Kewang said: "Dashuai, it's time for us to do it, if we don't do it, they will rob all the good things!" ”

Cheng Shijie asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter, your hands are itchy?" ”

Sun Kewang smiled a little awkwardly: "We used to rely on this to maintain morale. ”

This is the truth, the siege has always been very hard, very cruel, as long as the defending side is strong enough, no matter how small the city will make the attacking side pay a heavy price, so the ancient army will often burn down, rob the light, kill the whole after breaking the city, not only to vent anger, but also a means to boost morale, fight so hard, break the city and not make people happy, who else wants to attack the city in the future?

This kind of tragedy is full of history books, even if it is a lot of righteous divisions, it is not exempt from vulgarity, for example, when the peasants revolted at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han army led by Liu Bang, who is known as the name of benevolence and righteousness, has several atrocities in the slaughter of the city, and the Han army with relatively strict military discipline is still so, and those military discipline is not as strict as the Han army can be imagined, many generals who have seen it know that this is a loss of popular support, and try their best to avoid it, but most of the time they are powerless to stop it, if they forcibly stop it, the soldiers will no longer support them, This is the sadness of the times.

Cheng Shijie said: "That was before, now you don't have a family now, you will have a family in the future, or you will soon start a family, do you still want to be a returning colleague and become a beast that kills people when you see them?" ”

Sun Kewang was shocked.

Cheng Shijie said: "After this battle, after returning to China, the vast majority of people in the death camp can regain their freedom, you will soon marry a wife and have children, if I indulge you in the past massacre, if your children ask what you have done here in the future, how will you answer?" Do you tell them how many unarmed civilians you have slaughtered here, and how many women have been killed by strong women? ”

Liu Wenxiu muttered: "They are all burning and killing, why can't we?" ”

"If a dog eats, do you want to eat too?"

Liu Wenxiu didn't dare to answer Cheng Shijie's words.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Because we are different from them, what they can do, we may not be able to do, I don't want you to become beasts, understand?" ”

Although Cheng Shijie was unwilling to let Ning Haijun, or the Ming people, become complete beasts, at the beginning, he actually still had the intention of benefiting these labor prisoners, so as to prevent Ning Haijun from becoming a beast and losing his humanity and kindness in his heart.

However, after fighting against Xiaori, Cheng Shijie found that these labor prisoners were not incorrigible, they could indeed carry out the military orders of the Ning Navy very well, and their hands and feet were clean after eating and drinking.

Now these dirty jobs don't need to be done by the soldiers of the death camp, and the small days of the Fukuoka Domain will definitely help them do it, although the Ning Navy occupies Kagoshi Castle, but the Shimazu clan is the strongest domain in the entire Kyushu, and there is more than one castle in Kagojo.

With the official war between the Fukuoka Domain and the Satsuma Domain, Kagojo calmed down.

Because Cheng Shijie has handed over the dominance of the battlefield to the Fukuoka Domain. Cheng Shijie promised the Fukuoka Domain that they would attack the towns of the Satsuma Domain, and all the seizures would go to the Fukuoka Domain.

At this time, seeing that the Fukuoka Domain had taken refuge in Cheng Shijie, and the Kumamoto Domain was about to surrender, Cheng Shijie naturally agreed and let them go dog-eat-dog.

With the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain starting a war against the Satsuma Domain, even the Satsuma Domain in its heyday could not cope with the attack of the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain, and in the case of two against one, the Satsuma Domain resisted after seven or eight days of bloody battles, and the last castle of the Shimazu clan, Osumi Castle, was completely surrounded by the combined forces of the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain.

It was not easy for the Fukuoka and Kumamoto domains to take Osumi Castle, because Osumi Castle was different from Kago's castle, Kago's proximity to the port and transportation were also good, and the artillery of the Ning Navy could be easily sent to the castle. Even if the Shimazu clan does not retreat, it will not be difficult for the Ning Navy to take Kagoer Castle.

However, this Osumi Castle is a mountain city, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and far away from the range of naval artillery, especially the road up the mountain, Xiao Ri can completely use the terrain and use stones to cause damage to the Ning Navy.

Now that the Fukuoka Domain is here, the Ning Navy is also very trouble-free.

Retreating to Osumi Castle, Shimazu Mitsu was full of blisters, and he didn't know if he was thirsty or anxious.

Kitago, covered in blood, pounced in front of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, knelt down with his legs, and cried: "General, we surrender, let's surrender to the Ming army, otherwise ......"

Under the leadership of Kitago Tadatora, all the generals pounced, knelt down to Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and begged repeatedly: "Let's surrender to the Ming army, at least this can save the lives of our families!" ”

Their last bit of fighting spirit has been ruthlessly disintegrated, they are completely afraid, they no longer dare to fantasize about defeating the Ming army and reproducing the immortal feats of the total annihilation of Yuan Kou, they just want to save their families and their own lives, they just want to live.

However, the reality is very cruel, even if they surrender to the Ming army now, they may not be able to save their families' lives.

Because the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain have already started a war against the Satsuma Domain, and the Shimazu family has been offended thoroughly, it is better to simply offend a little more ruthlessly and cut the grass to the roots!

The combined forces of the Kumamoto Domain and the Fukuoka Domain saw the people of the Satsuma Domain, killed people when they saw them, and burned them when they saw them, and the acts of birds and beasts were vividly interpreted, and in the entire area controlled by the Satsuma Domain, whether in the towns or villages, thick smoke billowed to the sky, flames soared into the sky, screams, and cries shook the heavens and the earth, and there was a little strength of the small day samurai desperately resisted, and the unarmed civilians cried and shouted in the thick smoke and fire, and the wolves ran away, trying to escape the fierce Kumamoto and Fukuoka samurai, but no matter where they fled, there were people who swung their swords at them......

This scene, even Liu Wenxiu and Li Dingguo, who were born in exile, couldn't stand it.

Li Dingguo looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Handsome, these little dwarfs are too ruthless to stay." ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "They don't have a chance!" ”

Sun Kewang didn't understand what Cheng Shijie meant.

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Do you think the Tokugawa shogunate will be able to tolerate them eating inside and out?" The Tokugawa Shogunate had 80,000 samurai, more than their Fukuoka Domain and Kumamoto Domain combined, not to mention, the Tokugawa Shogunate could form a coalition army, and they would cry when the time came! ”

On October 21, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the battle of Kagoshima ended with crazy burning and looting, the battle of the small day army mobilized nearly 60,000 horses, and the Ming army that really fought with them was only two horses, in terms of equipment, in addition to artillery, the Ming army did not have much advantage, the Japanese army had thousands of gunners, equipped with Asian superior performance birds, as well as tens of thousands of martial arts warriors and a large number of experienced generals, and there was a typhoon that could hit at any time to threaten the lifeline of the Ming army, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to lose.

However, they lost, and lost completely, and this ending was beyond everyone's expectations.

The Battle of Kagoshima is just the beginning of Cheng Shijie's conquest of Xiaori, at most it is a good start, and it is still far from the end.

At this time, Cheng Shijie was frowning and watching a group of prisoners being escorted out, feeling that the number was a little small. The Satsuma Domain was also one of the largest cities in terms of small days, with an army of 30,000 or 40,000 people and millions of people under its rule. Why are you so captured? And most of the men who were taken out were men, and the number of women was pitiful...... The ability of those brutes to spoil women in a small day is really not ordinarily strong!

There are more than 3,000 small day samurai of the Shimazu family who laid down their arms and surrendered to the Ming army, and the expressions of these samurai are a little complicated. It is said that the Ming army defeated them and destroyed Kagoshima, and they should hate the Ming army, but now that the Ming army has sheltered their families, they don't know whether to hate the Ming army or be grateful to the Ming army.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa, Kitago Tadago, Honda Qinsada, Machida Kubei, Miyahara Keizane, Yamada Ariei and other generals prostrate at Cheng Shijie's feet, their foreheads touching the ground, like death row prisoners waiting to be beheaded, all with dead faces.

According to the tradition of Xiaori, once the army is defeated, ordinary soldiers can still surrender and survive, but these high-ranking generals are bound to die, and those who have a little backbone will disembowel, and those who don't have the courage to cut their abdomen will be beheaded directly, anyway, it will be difficult to escape death.

Cheng Shijie looked at them coldly and asked slowly, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa raised his head and said angrily: "I don't accept it!" ”

That Chinese is quite fluent, no way, Chinese is a compulsory course for the nobility of North Korea and Xiaori.

"What are you not convinced?"

Shimazu Mitsuhisa said angrily: "If it weren't for the sudden defection of the Hosokawa family and the Kuroda family, it would not be so easy for you to defeat us!" ”

Cheng Shijie nodded seriously and said: "You're right, without the help of these two, I think it will really take a little bit to win against you, but it's just a little bit of work, for me, it's just a matter of time, and the result won't change anything." You've said all the things you want to say, right? Then hit the road, Ben Shuai will give you a decent death. ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa's hands trembled, slowly pulled out his ribs, stared at the shiny blade, and showed a smile that was more ugly than crying. After a while, he sighed, took off his shirt and bare his back, held his hands upside down, aimed the tip of his knife at his abdomen, and whispered: "Kuroda, Hosokawa, you will definitely regret it!" ”

After Shimazu Mitsuhisa finished speaking, he slammed hard, poofed, and stabbed the whole rib into the abdomen, and then slashed horizontally, cutting open the abdomen, and blood splashed everywhere.

But even so, he still knelt on the ground and didn't say a word, he was really a tough guy.

Cheng Shijie pulled out a horizontal knife and walked behind him, with a swing of the knife, blood rain splashed, and the big head rolled to the ground, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, a young and promising head of the family, ended his short life in this tragic way.

Cheng Shijie took a white silk, wiped off the dirt on the knife, and said to Sun Kewang: "Lift the corpse down, find someone with better craftsmanship to sew the head back, and give him a decent funeral." Anyway, he's also a tough guy, and the funeral can't be too shabby. ”

Beixiang Zhonghu looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Your Excellency General Cheng, I ...... I'm willing to surrender! Please spare me my life! I am willing to be your most loyal and obedient slave, the most brave warrior, charging into battle for you, ...... for you"

A flash of swords!

The iron-like horizontal knife swung with a fierce wind, and Beixiang Zhonghu only felt a chill in his neck, and before he could understand what was going on, his head rolled to the ground, and a column of blood spurted high from the bowl-sized wound on his neck. He knelt there straight, like a headless statue, his eyes wide open, as if he couldn't believe that death could come so quickly.

"Damn, give you a chance to maintain your dignity, you don't want it, it's typical to be shameless!"

After Cheng Shijie dealt with the generals of the Satsuma Domain, it was time to divide the spoils.

Although most of the Shimazu clan's money, except for Kagoshi, was stolen by Kumamoto and Fukuoka clans, they were not worried, and they had to spit out the money they ate.

After more than a month of sorting, the seizure of Guangluer City was also liquidated, not counting antiques, cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings, and other treasures, as much as 2.6 million taels of silver, 460,000 copper coins, 62,000 taels of gold, 52 buckets of pearls, more than 3,000 pieces of jade, and a lot of precious stones, if all these properties are converted into silver, their value is more than 4.3 million taels.

Sun Kewang said: "Dashuai, I can't imagine that Xiaotian is so poor and can get so much silver!" ”

"Given a million people, sixteen or seventeen generations of time, you can save so much silver!"

Cheng Shijie thinks about Ishimi Yinshan.

"It's a pity, those little days didn't lack good things!"

"They're all ours!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "You go to talk to them on behalf of Ben Shuai and ask them if they want this kind of equipment from us!" ”

Sun Kewang finally understood that Cheng Shijie used this way to get the silver of Xiaori.

"Dashuai, this is too troublesome! It's better to..."

Sun Kewang made a decapitation gesture.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "You can't play like this, Ben Shuai still needs to use the Kumamoto Domain and the Fukuoka Domain, these two dogs are still useful for the time being!" ”

"Then the big handsome is not afraid that they will devour the Lord in the future!"

"They have to do it!"

With the invention of the steam engine in Liaodong, the industrialization process in Liaodong will be accelerated, whether it is a rifle or a machine gun, it will be the world of hot weapons in the future.

Sell steel armor and horizontal knives to Xiao Ri, Xiao Ri will never be Cheng Shijie's opponent with such weapons and equipment.

Sun Kewang said: "What about the samurai these little days? ”

"Let them go to Liaodong to mine!"

At this moment, a herald said: "Marshal, the navy has won a great battle!" ”

PS: It's almost over, everyone bear with me for a few more days.

(End of chapter)