Cheng Shijie looked at the five armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company that were captured, all of which were armed merchant ships of about 1,200 tons, and they also had strong combat effectiveness when placed on the sea.

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly and said, "When did the Dutch get together with Xiaori?" ”

Shen Shikui's nephew, Shen Zhiyong, the former guerrilla general of the Dongjiang Army and now the deputy commander of the naval strike fleet of the Ning Navy, said with a wry smile: "According to the confessions of the captives, these armed merchant ships were hired by the lord of the Choshu Domain, Mori Hidemoto, to transport troops and supplies for the Choshu Domain!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "This is to give Ben Shuai a chance, and let Ben Shuai beat them again!" ”

Shen Zhiyong said: "Is the marshal going to war with the Dutch?" ”

"Those Xiyi have always remembered whether they eat or not, if there is a chance to beat Xiyi hard, it is enough, some Xiyi are really cheap, and they don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin!"

Just as Cheng Shijie was talking to Shen Zhiyong, Kuroda Xingji came on foot with a team of samurai.

There were still more than 100 steps away from Cheng Shijie, and Admiral Ning Haijun stopped Kuroda Xingji.

"Disarming and removing the knife!"

Kuroda Xingji asked his samurai to stay where he was, he untied his katana, walked towards Cheng Shijie, more than ten steps away from Cheng Shijie, and bowed ninety degrees: "Kuroda Xingji, meet Your Excellency the General, Your Excellency Wan'an." ”

"Excuse me!"

"Your Excellency the Great General, congratulations on your outnumbered victory, and the elimination of the confidant Satsuma Domain!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head: "The henchmen of the fart are in great trouble, and in the eyes of the Satsuma Domain, the fart is not even a fart!" ”

Kuroda Yukiji said: "Your Excellency, your Excellency the general, you must have captured a lot of weapons, right?" ”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It's quite a lot, there are sixteen or seven thousand katana swords alone, and there are more than 1,500 fire guns and iron cannons, which are still intact." ”

Kuroda Yukiji said: "There is a reluctant request below, and I also ask His Excellency the General to fulfill it." ”

"Tell me about it."

"General, you know, our Fukuoka Domain is a barren place, and it is very difficult to produce a batch of weapons with superior performance, so I want to take advantage of the money on hand now to buy those thousands of katanas, and save me a lot of manpower and material resources to build them later!"

"yes, how did I forget that? Kuroda-kun, you can't get all those weapons, I want half of them too! ”

Kuroda Yujiji said angrily: "Hosokawa-kun, your territory is rich in iron ore, and it is very convenient to build weapons, why do you have to fight with me!" ”

Hosokawa Tadashi smiled: "Who doesn't want cheap things?" ”

In fact, he didn't want to buy weapons because they were cheap, he just didn't want to see the Fukuoka Domain get a large number of weapons and then grow stronger.

You know, the ferocity and tenacity of the Fukuoka samurai, the crown of Kyushu, in the battle with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, extremely fierce, but the soldiers are few, the weapons are insufficient, and they have not been able to grow, if the Kuroda family gets a large number of weapons, the strength of the rapid expansion is a sure thing, for the Kumamoto domain, this is tantamount to a disaster.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Two, don't fight, I want to bring these weapons back to China to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and none of them will be sold, you have died of this heart!" ”

Seeing that Cheng Shijie was reluctant to sell these weapons, Kuroda and Hosokawa were very disappointed.

Kuroda asked tentatively, "Your Excellency, General, we are willing to offer ten times the price!" ”

Hosokawa Tadashi also said, "We are willing to ......"

"You guys are really ignorant these little days, and you can actually see these rags!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand at Li Dingguo and said, "Dingguo." ”

Li Dingguo willed, untied his knife, and handed it to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took the horizontal knife from Li Dingguo's hand, pointed to the captured Xiaori spear and said, "With your katana, can you cut this spear?" ”

"Yes!"

Kuroda Koji drew his katana and quickly drew it, slashing off a barrel made of miscellaneous wood with a single sword.

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Tie five guns together!" ”

Admiral Ning immediately tied the five guns together, and then asked Kuroda Yujiji to cut them.

Kuroda's katana slashed three times in a row, and these five spears barely cut four of them, and that's it.

Cheng Shijie asked the Ning Navy soldiers to tie five more spears, and as the Ning Navy officers had just set it up, Cheng Shijie shouted, and slashed Huashan with a force, and the horizontal knife led the wind down.

With a "bang", the barrels of the five spears made of miscellaneous wood were cut off by Qi Brush!

Hosokawa Tadashi's heart seemed to have been cut by a knife, and it hurt so much, ten spears, it's worth a lot of money, and it's actually cut like this, but the horizontal knife equipped by the Ning Navy is so sharp?

Kuroda Yuji's eyes lit up: "General, your sword ......"

"Your katana looks good, but the armor-piercing ability is too weak!"

Cheng Shijie said unceremoniously: "Your katana is too bad!" Ben Shuai tried it just now, using this kind of katana to cut the spear, it can barely be cut, and when it encounters ironclad soldiers, it can't be cut at all! ”

Afraid that Kuroda and Hosokawa would not believe it, Cheng Shijie asked people to set up a wooden man, put on the armor on the soldiers of the Ning Navy, let Kuroda and Hosozoe cut with a katana, and let them stab with a spear.

Li Dingguo looked at this scene and lowered his voice and said, "Dashuai, aren't you worried that these days will use these equipment to deal with us in the future!" ”

"They have to have this guts, Ben Shuai can't ask for it!"

"They have always been bold!"

Li Dingguo said with some concern: "They ......"

Cheng Shijie patted the pistol on his waist and said, "We will use this in the future!" ”

The Ning Navy has now phased out cold weapons, and in the future, even spears and bows and crossbows will not be equipped, and knives will become symbolic decorations, and the real melee weapons are pistols and sapper shovels. Although the monthly production volume is only 2,600 rifles, the problem is that this kind of spear has a range of 450 meters, and it can shoot 10 to 15 bullets per minute if it is proficient.

Whether it is the rate of fire or the range, it has far surpassed the Formation Breaking Crossbow, which means that the Formation Breaking Crossbow has also lost the need for service. What's more, if the infantry attacked the soldiers of the Ning Navy, they would need to go through ten or fifteen rounds of firing when they were fully armed, and it would be strange to be able to rush forward.

What's more, the Ning Navy has also strengthened the research of machine guns for squads, and no breakthrough has been made at present, but in the case of scientific and technological development, it is only a matter of time before a breakthrough is made.

At the same time, the artillery of the Ning Navy will continue to be strengthened, and it is impossible for the troops equipped with cold weapons to rush forward. And the heavier the armor, the slower the movement speed, and they can only become targets for the Ning Navy soldiers.

Even the iron armor of the Jiannu white-armored soldiers, in front of the muskets of the Ning Navy, was like paper paste.

When Hosokawa Tadashi and Kuroda Yujiro were tired and out of breath, they looked at the katana that was already full of gaps, and had to admit that there was a huge gap between their swords and the Daming sabre.

"Now you understand, right?"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the spear of the warrior of Xiaori and said: "You spear, the barrel of the gun is as soft as tofu, I can cut five shots with one sword!" You say, what is the use of this spear, which does not pierce people and has a barrel as soft as tofu? ”

"Your Excellency, General, you mean to sell us this horizontal sword!"

"That's right, for the sake of our cooperation so smoothly, this is the knife casting process from Datang, each Tang horizontal knife can be stabbed and chopped, and a knife is not expensive for twenty taels of silver, right?"

Kuroda Xingji said excitedly: "It's not expensive, our Kuroda family wants 30,000 handles!" ”

With the Kuroda clan's financial resources, it was very difficult to come up with 600,000 taels of silver, but the problem was that they had just robbed the lord of Satsuma several castles, and the harvest was not small. 600,000 taels of silver, you can take it out.

Hosokawa Tadayo said: "We also want 30,000 handles!" ”

"Well said, well said!"

Ning Haijun produced no less than three million horizontal knives before and after, and basically every household in Liaodong has horizontal knives, and some have more than one, the key is that there are more than one million knives in the hands of the troops, Cheng Shijie is very troubled by how to deal with these equipment.

Not to mention that the two of them want 60,000 handles, even if they are 600,000 handles, 600 handles are just two shifts and more overtime.

"Bring it!"

Immediately, a soldier of the Ning Navy handed over a long spear, the length of the barrel was one zhang and two feet, that is, three meters and seven or eight, and the combined length of the blade and the gun bottle was also one and a half feet, and the entire spear was four meters long.

The most amazing thing is that its spear head is not the usual wheat mang-shaped, but a narrow sword shape, and it also has a deep blood groove, and the blade glows with a cold cold light.

As an acquaintance with Chinese history, Kuroda Yuiji whispered: "This is a horse lance!" ”

"It's not a horse lance, it's barely a rifle!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Bring your heavy shield!" ”

Kuroda Yukiji picked up a heavy shield from the captured pile of Xiao Ri's weapons, this is Xiao Ri's heavy shield, weighing more than forty catties, and the outer layer is wrapped in raw cowhide and copper skin.

When the shield was erected, Cheng Shijie handed the spear to Li Dingguo.

Stabbing through the shield with a spear, this is a strength job, although Cheng Shijie is confident in his strength, but after all, he has not trained during this time, and after coming to Xiaori, his body has also suffered a lot.

Li Dingguo took the spear, danced a beautiful spear flower with his hand, stabbed the ground with a shot, and with a bang, the big shield was pierced, and the tip of the spear showed nearly half a foot from the inside.

Hosokawa Tadashi instantly took a breath: "This ......"

"This is the standard equipment of our Ning Navy, have you seen this gun? Inside it is a little finger thick and a zhang long steel bar, and then the bamboo strips soaked in tung oil are put together layer by layer, densely tied with cow tendons, and then wrapped in kudzu cloth, painted with lacquer, and finally finished! See this gun, right? It's made of high-carbon steel, and it's very strong in armor piercing! ”

"How much?"

"The same price as the horizontal knife!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Twenty taels of silver per stroke!" ”

"Buy ......"

Kuroda Yuiji had a bitter face: "We can't afford ......"

"You can trade people!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile on his face: "Ten middle-aged men have a long knife, and twenty middle-aged women...... A gun. ”

"But, we ...... There's no one left in the Satsuma Domain! ”

"Kyushu isn't the only Satsuma Domain, don't you ......?"

Koji Kuroda and Tadayi Hosokawa understood immediately.

……

The old nest of the Choshu Domain.

Li Zhixiang led thousands of elite soldiers to land at the wharf unconsciously, and after taking the wharf in one fell swoop, he began to attack the city, but the city wall was lined with guns and bullets, and even a brick was not knocked down after a round of attacks, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded.

"Pull the rocket artillery up!"

The biggest advantage of rocket artillery is the mobile aspect, which fires quickly. Hundreds of rocket tubes that had been erected let out a terrifying roar, spewing out large clouds of white smoke and flames, and the slender rocket launchers rushed out of them, pulling a straight trail in the sky, and pounced on Ogijo.

The defenders of Ogijo suddenly heard this piercing scream, raised their heads and looked, and their faces turned white all of a sudden!

It's too late to do anything now, and even more so in the face of such heavy shelling, they can't do anything! The meteor shower fell with the grim smile of death, and the earth trembled violently, and the explosion was far more terrifying than a hundred thunderbolts exploding at the same time, and the loud explosion shook the walls of Ogi Castle.

The blast wave of the explosion blew the defenders of Ogijo to pieces, I don't know how many people were blown to pieces in an instant, and after the violent heart-pounding explosion, cries and shouts followed, and a large number of soldiers were covered in fire, and fell to the ground with a miserable scream.

The defenders of Ogijo had never witnessed such a terrible bombardment, and they all fell silent, watching all this with fear, and their thoughts were strikingly similar...... Heavenly punishment!

It's not a heavenly punishment, how could such a terrible thunder suddenly fall in the clear sky?

One of the great advantages of rocket artillery is that it is easy and fast to fire, just stuff the shell into the launch tube, and ignite the fuse, which is more than ten times faster than the tragic rate of fire of the front-loading smoothbore gun, so the second round of shelling comes faster than anyone imagined.

One by one, the fire dragons flew towards the city, the rocket artillery shells exploded on the ground, the sulfur burned violently and splashed in all directions, splashing wherever it burned, and those houses of paper bark and bark were on fire at a point, and the Xiaori army was shocked and tried to put it out.

However, rocket artillery shells kept flying in and exploding, lighting up one fire after another, and soon the unlucky people who put out the fire found that even they themselves were surrounded by artillery.

The entire city of Ogijo was turned into a furnace under the bombardment of artillery, and the smoke billowed and the flames soared into the sky, and the cries of the soldiers and civilians of Ogi hit the city wall like a terrifying wave, which was unbearable to hear.

Then a landslide-like explosion almost collapsed the city wall, and tens of thousands of catties of black powder stored in the firearms warehouse in Ogi City were detonated, and several blocks were wiped out in an instant, and the fire was immediately several feet away!

The soldiers and civilians in the city frantically poured out from the gates with frightened looks, and there were countless casualties under the trampling of each other, and the dead almost blocked the city gates......

However, even if they escaped from the furnace, they would not be safe, so thousands of Ming soldiers were waiting for them, either surrender or be slaughtered.

After the fire was extinguished, the Ming army attacked again and took Ogijo without much effort, because there were few living people left in the city, and the dead would not pick up swords and guns to resist.

Just as Li Zhixiang was reaping the fruits of Ogijo, the coalition of the Fukuoka and Kumamoto domains set their sights on Nagasaki. Nagasaki was the main castle of the Hinoe Domain (later renamed the Shimabara Domain). Nagasaki Port, located in the western part of Kyushu Island, is the most prosperous port city in Kohi, and a large number of fishing boats go out to sea every day to bring back a boatload of seafood, and every day a large number of merchant ships carrying fruits from Japan, swords, copper ingots, sulfur, flower cloth, swords, and other goods sail out of the port to Korea, Jaimyo, Vietnam, Nanyang and other countries, and a large number of foreign ships enter the port every day.

The fleet from the Ming Dynasty brought silk, porcelain, and tea; Fleets from the West brought muskets, cannons, and glassware, and Zheng Zhilong's pirates rushed to Nagasaki City in droves to look for flower girls......

All in all, the entire port of Nagasaki is an important base for cultural exchange between the East and the West. In 1610, when the Madonna Incident broke out in Nagasaki, a Portuguese merchant ship was burned by Arima Harunobu and other daimyos, and from 1616 onwards, the Edo government began to restrict ships from Europe from trading only in Hirado and Nagasaki. In 1635, trade was restricted to the port of Nagasaki, and Dejima was built as a place to restrict Portuguese residence, and in 1641, the Dutch merchant house was moved to Dejima, and the Edo government's measures to close the country were completed, and for nearly 200 years, Nagasaki became Japan's only international trading port.

Of course, this prosperous land is not ownerless, how could the Tokugawa shogunate let go of this fat overflowing fat? From the day the Tokugawa shogunate was established, the port of Nagasaki was firmly in their hands, and the annual customs tariff made the shogunate full of fat.

After learning that the combined forces of the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain were directly attacking the port of Nagasaki, the Ning Navy cooperated in the operation, and with the coalition forces storming to take the commanding heights, and then, the Ning Navy set up rocket artillery and bombarded Nagasaki City, hundreds of rocket shells smashed into it, and the whole city was shrouded in smoke and fire, tens of thousands of people were burned alive or suffocated, and strategic reserves such as food, gunpowder, and weapons were burned.

In this battle to attack Nagasaki, there was a small force that performed very eye-catching, this is to the Shimazu family to bring Honda Yourong, Cheng Shijie did not sell to the Kuroda and Hosokawa two families of small day equipment, these equipment is not as Cheng Shijie said, to be shipped back to the country to give victory.

In fact, this equipment was used to arm the more than 3,000 samurai and ashigaru of the Shimazu family under the command of Honda Yuei. After eating three meals of Ning Haijun's meal, these small days the samurai felt like a person now.

They immediately swore allegiance to Cheng Shijie. Of course, in Cheng Shijie's eyes, they are just cannon fodder, and Cheng Shijie promised the more than 3,000 small day warriors: "The whole family of those who climb the city can be free!" ”

As a result, these small days the samurai behaved very heroically and extremely crazy during the attack.

As Nagasaki fell into flames, the entire island of Kyushu was full of wolf smoke and madness.

Under these circumstances, the Tokugawa shogunate finally could not sit still. (End of chapter)