Edo, shogunate.

As the shogun of the third Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu, he was lying comfortably on a soft couch at this time, and the two little beauties lowered their eyebrows and rubbed their shoulders.

Two little beautiful men pinched their feet.

A young beauty gently handed a peeled longan to Tokugawa Iemitsu's mouth.

A young man who is over half a hundred years old is holding a book of recitals and is reading it out: "Tokugawa (Tayasu) family Kai Musashi Shitoshi Tsu and Izumi Harima Inner Heavenly Leader Chief: Since October, rain and flooding have been plagued, Kamitsuki Castle, Shishio Castle, Himeji Castle, and Miki Castle. and so on, and tens of thousands of people ......"

In his hand, there was also a stack of folds.

Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his hand lightly and said, "Pass ......"

The little eunuch picked up another part of the recital: Bungo Prefecture Domain Heavenly Domain, Nagasaki Division Representative, Nagasaki Governor Hineno Yoshio Performance, since the Satsuma Domain started the war, Kagoer City was lost, the side affairs were restless, Satsuma Domain's Shimazu Mitsu Hishiro, privately formed a party, Yin was not a minister, on the afternoon of this month, the Ming Dynasty General Cheng, beheaded Guangjiu and the following 8,000 rebellious ......! ”

It's not that Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't receive a war report from Kyushu, but the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking.

At present, the Tokugawa shogunate had five daimyos, and the so-called daimyo refers to the daimyo who were forced to surrender during the Battle of Sekigahara. To give a very simple example, the relationship between the Satsuma Domain and the Tokugawa Shogunate is similar to Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes during the Three Kingdoms period, and Cao Cao was the shogunate of the small days. And the Satsuma domain is equivalent to the relationship between Hanzhong Taishou Zhang Lu, or Xiliang Ma Teng.

This type of daimyo has a relatively distant relationship with the Tokugawa clan and has a strong independence, so the outer daimyo has always been the object of the Tokugawa clan's wariness and weakening; However, although the Tokugawa clan established the shogunate, they did not dare to directly weaken a certain foreign daimyo for no reason.

As early as the Kamakura shogunate, the shogunate, a power structure above the emperor and the emperor, ruled for 400 years, and its rule will continue.

Genji defeated the Taira clan to establish the Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikaga family killed Minamoto to establish the Muromachi shogunate, and Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen rose up to overthrow the Muromachi shogunate, and then launched an unprecedentedly fierce battle for the supremacy of the shogun, and the whole of Japan was drawn into the vortex of blood and fire.

Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu teamed up to take out Takeda Shingen, and Akechi Mitsuhide took out his old boss Oda Nobunaga with a black knife in the back, and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi was killed by Oda Nobunaga's love. After the unification of the small day, Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched a war to conquer the dynasty, but was slapped back by the Ming Dynasty.

After eight years of hard fighting, not an inch of land was gained, but more than 100,000 Japanese samurai were buried, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi vomited blood and died. The death game that lasted for a hundred years finally came to an end, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had the last laugh, and after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Empire, the Tokugawa family destroyed the Toyotomi family step by step and took sole power.

To say that all the feudal lords of the entire small day did not have the strength to threaten the position of the Tokugawa shogunate, nothing is absolute, whether it is the Genji, or the Oda clan or the Tokugawa clan, they are all below the throne, so they have today's position.

Weakening the strength of the feudal kingdoms below, this is something that the Tokugawa shogunate is happy to see, and when Tokugawa Iemitsu received Cheng Shijie led the Ming army to conquer Kyushu, the first thing that came to mind was Tianzhu Tokugawa.

However, of these five daimyos, the fifth was the Fukuoka Domain of the Kuroda clan, followed by the Kumamoto Domain of the Fourth Hosokawa Clan, the Date Clan of the Third Sendai Clan, the Satsuma Domain in the second place, and the Kaga Domain in the first place. Now that Cheng Shijie is dealing with the Satsuma Domain, it is not harmful for the Tokugawa clan.

Five daimyos, three in Kyushu, the Kyushu feudal clans have always been unruly against the shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu was happy to see them beaten by the Ming army, greatly weakened in strength, and finally sent troops in the form of saviors to help them defeat the Ming army that invaded Kyushu.

There were 80,000 brave and peerless banner warriors under the command of the Tokugawa shogunate, and more than 10,000 Ming troops, and he didn't pay attention to it. What really gave him a headache was Mingguo's attitude. Why did the Ming Kingdom send troops to invade Xiaori for no reason?

It may not be difficult to defeat more than 10,000 Ming troops, but the difficulty is how to deal with the aftermath, after all, Xiaori has to face a behemoth with a population of more than 100 million, and Tokugawa Iemitsu asked himself if he had the ability to play with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he didn't have the courage to play with this behemoth.

Just when the Tokugawa family was thinking about it, there was a gentle knock outside the door.

"Your Excellency General, Your Excellency Lao Zhong asks to see you!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his hand, and the beautiful girls and boys around him got up and left, leaving Tokugawa Iemitsu alone in the entire quiet room.

"Come in!"

The maid kneeling outside the door opened the door, and an old man with a white beard and a thin face, but with piercing eyes, strode in, and then knelt in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

It was Tokugawa Iemitsu's old middle school Sakai Tadakatsu, who was the highest official position in the shogunate.

The maid then closed the door, and Sakai Tadashi kowtowed, and said respectfully, "See the general!" ”

A smile appeared on Tokugawa Iemitsu's young face: "Your Excellency, please take a seat!" ”

"General Xie!"

"What's the matter?"

Sakai Tadakatsu was the eldest son of Sakai Tadashi, the lord of the Kawagoe Domain, and his mother was the daughter of Shigenao Suzuki (Lord of Mikawa Ashosuke Castle). This guy was a brave and ruthless character when he was young, experienced in a hundred battles, and was also a good hand at governing the local economy, and with his extraordinary achievements and political achievements, his position in the Tokugawa shogunate was as stable as a rock.

Sakai Tadakatsu's expression was solemn, and he whispered: "General, there is news from Kyushu!" ”

"How's it going?"

"Satsuma Domain......"

"Won?"

Sakai Tadakatsu said: "Great defeat! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu shrugged his eyebrows: "Big defeat? How can it be? ”

The Kyushu feudal domains were strong, especially the Kumamoto domain, the Satsuma domain, and the Fukuoka domain, and if the Kyushu domain joined forces, even if it had 80,000 samurai Tokugawa shogunate, it would not be necessary to be sure.

"According to the intelligence, the Ming army of the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain defected, and the entire army of the Satsuma Domain was defeated, and even the last Osumi Castle was lost!"

Sakai Tadashi smiled bitterly: "The Ming army has hundreds of powerful cannons, which are fired by Qingyi-style flowering shells, and under one cannon, the landslide and the ground cracks, and the samurai of the Shimazu family let their cannons bombard the flesh and blood, and the formation is in chaos!" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face became solemn.

"In addition, this Ming army is extremely well-equipped, the armor is strong, and it is invulnerable, and the samurai of the Satsuma Domain slash with their swords, and sparks fly everywhere, and the armor is not damaged, but the katana is the blade! The Ming army was equipped with a kind of strong crossbow, the range was not inferior to that of the bird, and the accuracy was far superior, the Ming army hid behind a kind of fortification made of sandbags, and the projectiles fired by the iron artillery team of the Satsuma Domain were all blocked by the sandbags without exception, and the crossbow arrows fired by their crossbowmen shot the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain in pieces! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu was surprised and said, "The Ming army is so well-equipped? Doesn't it mean that the army is poorer than Hanako, and a dozen samurai can defeat them for a thousand households? How to ......"

Sakai Tadashi smiled bitterly: "That's the guard, naturally it's easy to deal with, but this time it's the first-class elite of the Ming army, it's not so easy to deal with, otherwise the battle of the conquest of the dynasty would not have been lost so badly." ”

The Korean War is an eternal pain in the heart of a small day, the Ninth Route Army attacked North Korea, and seven or eight out of ten were lost.

Tokugawa Iemitsu frowned and said, "Your Excellency, tell me, what is the origin of this Ming army general Cheng Shijie?" How come I haven't heard of him? ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "It has been found out, he is Cheng Shijie, the prince of the Ming Sea Kingdom, who defeated the Manchurian iron cavalry in the Battle of Liaoyang and annihilated 40,000 enemies." ”

Tokugawa Ieko's pupils shrank: "It's him?" Cheng Shijie who defeated Zheng Sang? ”

"Not only Zheng Sang, but also the Spaniards' Luzon and Dutch officials were robbed back by Cheng Shijie, and it is said that he also extorted 4.6 million taels of silver from the Spaniards, and each Spanish hostage was 1,000 taels of silver, and the Dutch also suffered a big loss in their hands!"

Who are the people who have been in the limelight in recent years? That must be Cheng Shijie, in the battle of Haizhou, he abolished more than 10,000 Jiannu, Huang Taiji poured the elite of the Eight Banners to retaliate, but the result was even worse, Cheng Shijie annihilated more than 40,000 people in the first battle, and now Jiannu has not recovered.

If you want to say that Cheng Shijie is powerful in land warfare, there is nothing to say, after all, Xiaori and Daming are separated by the sea, don't be afraid of him, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie's naval battle is also powerful, Zheng Zhilong collected protection money from Ning Haijun, and he directly flipped the table in anger and annihilated all the troops of the more than 200,000 Zheng Group.

At the same time, the Spanish and Dutch, as long as they provoke Cheng Shijie, will be pressed to the ground and rubbed.

While Tokugawa Iemitsu and Sakai Tadashi were talking, there was a messy footstep outside the door.

Being disturbed for no reason, Tokugawa Iemitsu was very unhappy, his brows furrowed, and he was angry, when a waiter ran in embarrassed and roared at the maid outside the door: "Urgent battle report, I ask to see His Excellency the General!" ”

"Let him in!"

The squire panted like an ox, held a battle report high, and knelt down on his knees in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu: "Your Excellency General, Nagasaki Urgent!" ”

The old middle Sakai Tadakatsu hurriedly reached out and took the battle report and handed it to Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Tokugawa Iemitsu opened it and glanced at it, and his face changed drastically.

Sakai Tadashi asked puzzledly, "Your Excellency General, what happened?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "Your Excellency, take a look for yourself!" ”

As Sakai Tadashi opened the battle report, he saw that it read: "On October 29, the 11th year of Kanei (the 8th year of Chongzhen), only one day, the Nagasaki Fort was completely destroyed, hundreds of bullets fell in the city, and countless civilians were killed and wounded......"

As the saying goes, if the needle doesn't prick anyone's flesh, who doesn't hurt.

When the Ming army unscrupulously attacked the Satsuma Domain, Tokugawa Iemitsu was not in a hurry, he had the intention of killing people with a knife, and it was best for the Ming army to die with the Satsuma Domain. Even if we can't end up together, we must weaken the Satsuma domain as much as possible. Now it's different, the Satsuma Domain no longer exists, but Cheng Shijie doesn't have the intention of stopping, and now he actually slashed the knife at Nagasaki again.

You must know that Nagasaki is the money bag of the shogunate, and now Nagasaki has been served by the Ming army, which is the life of the Tokugawa shogunate, as the only treaty port for a small day, without Nagasaki, and play a fart!

Tokugawa Iemitsu gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, you go down and make arrangements, I will gather all the generals to discuss the matter of sending troops to Kyushu to fight against the Ming Kou!" Also, let people go to Beijing and ask Ming Ting about this! ”

Sakai Tadashi said puzzledly: "Why is this? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "I want to find out whether this invasion of the Ming army is the general Cheng Da Ke Shang, or the Ming court's instructions!" Only by figuring out what's going on can you be able to deal with it! ”

Tadashi Sakai understood. If the Ming army's invasion of Xiaori was just an act of restraint, as long as it was soft and hard to the Ming Dynasty, forcing it to order the Ming army to withdraw; If the invasion of Xiaori was instructed by the Ming court, then Japan would be in great trouble......

At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate enjoyed a period of peace, but many of the generals who had lived through the war were still alive, and the warlike spirit honed in the mountains of corpses and blood during the Sengoku period had not yet dissipated, so the war machine of the Tokugawa shogunate was still running smoothly.

At this time, the small days were under the governance of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the overall trend was on the rise, and the wounds caused by the century-old war were being healed little by little, so the prestige of the Tokugawa shogunate in the small days was very high, and under the order of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the Kanto feudal domains quickly mobilized, and the armies from all walks of life were assembled one after another, and they gathered on the Edo side.

And the samurai of the flag under the command of the Tokugawa shogunate polished the katana, wiped off the rust on the blade of the cross spear, brought dry food, and assembled impatiently, shouting to teach the Ming army a lesson, and some were anxious not to even wait for the shogunate army to dispatch, but first went on the road in groups, it seems that for them, the Ming army is not a terrible enemy, but a pile of silver that can move and move.

Just when the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops, Cheng Shijie also arrived at Nagasaki Port, and after Nagasaki Port was taken, Nagasaki Castle held out for eight days with its tall and strong walls.

After eight days and eight nights of bloody battles, the entire Nagasaki City was full of corpses, and more and more ronins and samurai joined Cheng Shijie's command. After all, everyone has to eat, and with Cheng Shijie, each samurai can have a box of 500 grams of canned meat plus two 400-gram compressed biscuits, and if one person eats, there will definitely be no problem. It's much stronger than following those big names.

Cheng Shijie used food to attract wandering samurai in small days, for two reasons, first, he didn't want the strength of the Kumamoto and Fukuoka domains to skyrocket too fast, and secondly, because there were problems in the country.

At the beginning, in order to prevent the King of Liao from interfering in Liaodong, Cheng Shijie asked Song Xiance to sneak into the Central Plains and act as a rogue. At first, Cheng Shijie wanted Song Xiance to be a knife. Whoever is looking for trouble with Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie asked Song Xiance to kill whoever this gang of rogues will do.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie didn't realize that Song Xiance was too capable, after Song Xiance occupied Yanzhou Mansion, the Dashun army under his command skyrocketed to more than 40,000 people, and then Song Xiance held high the banner of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, went directly west, and won the Guide Mansion with effortless effort.

After the occupation of Guide, the army under the command of Song Xiance skyrocketed to more than 100,000 people, especially at this time it was already the autumn harvest, taking advantage of the autumn, Song Xiance divided the more than 2,000 acres of land of the landlords of Yanzhou Mansion and Guide Mansion into poor people, and the troops under his command increased to more than 500,000 horses.

Song Xiance also rode a tiger south, on the one hand, he attacked Dongchang Mansion to Xuzhou, this time the court couldn't sit still, Zhang Xianzhong burned Fengyang to the ground with a fire, and finally caught Zhang Xianzhong, never thought that there was another Song Xiance.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare to be careless, he directly tried to dispel public opinion and let Cheng Shijie go back to quell the rebellion of the Dashun army. Because Cheng Shijie must return to Daming, he must expand the results as soon as possible.

Relying only on the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain, it is not a big problem to take Kyushu, but there is not only one Kyushu, but there are also other three islands.

In this case, in order to have a full meal, these small days the samurai and ronin became the rabid dog regiment under the command of Cheng Shijie, and the number of the rabid dog regiment has increased from more than 3,000 people at the beginning to more than 20,000 now, and even many Kumamoto samurai and Fukuoka samurai have quietly joined the rabid dog corps.

Seeing Cheng Shijie arrive in Nagasaki, these small day samurai of the Rabid Dog Regiment behaved even more heroically, they rushed towards Nagasaki Castle with a mess of weapons, and climbed the city wall like a string of ants.

Although the Xiaori army was beaten out of body by the terrible artillery fire of the Ming army, but at the moment of life and death, they still gritted their teeth and worked hard, the bows and arrows and muskets were full of firepower, and the stray bullets on the city wall were like rain, and the sharp arrows covered the air, and the civilians of Nagasaki also rushed to the city wall to help the battle, and smashed stones at the small day cannon fodder who was attached to the ant-attached siege city, or poured a pot of boiling oil down, and the cannon fodder that was hit fell down in strings, and the dead bodies soon accumulated a thick layer under the city wall.

However, the fanaticism of this gang of cannon fodder was far beyond the imagination of the defenders of Nagasaki Port, and after a charge was repulsed, they did not rest, and immediately launched a second charge, and if they failed the second time, they would do it again, just like a rising tide. The defenders of Nagasaki Port fought hard, and the city was covered with dead bodies and rivers of blood.

"Marshal, these little warriors are still not good, do you want our artillery to support them!"

Sun Kewang could see that he would definitely not be able to attack these small days.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Don't you need money for shells?" ”

"Then they can't beat it, and after a long time, morale will inevitably drop!"

Cheng Shijie said: "This is a problem, call Honda Yourong over!" ”

It didn't take long, and Honda Yourong, who was 1.68 meters tall, walked over, and 1.68 meters was barely an average height in the height of a Ming man. But the problem is that in the small days, he is like a group of chickens.

"Meet Your Excellency!"

"Honda-kun, how many people do you escape...... Such...... And so it goes! ”

Cheng Shijie told Honda Yourong about the way of tunneling siege.

Honda Yuei took a large number of Kori samurai to shoot at the city wall with bows and arrows, and after killing and wounding more than 1,000 people, he finally arrived at the foot of Nagasaki Castle.

First, small holes were dug and small packets of explosives were inserted to detonate them, and the bricks were blown apart, and then they were pried down with iron drills to dig out larger holes, and then they were blown up again......

After tossing for most of the day, they successfully made three holes the size of the Eight Immortals Table in that section of the city wall, and each hole was fed with hundreds of catties of explosives. The preparations were almost ready, and with an order, the cannon fodder who were fighting the city wall retreated, and Xiaori took the opportunity to recover this section of the city wall.

As the defenders of Nagasaki raised their swords and cheered on the recaptured positions, a thunderous and violent bang shook the ground, turning the entire 30-meter-long wall into an erupting volcano, and hundreds of Nagasaki soldiers were wrapped in broken bricks and flew into the air......

The soldiers and civilians of Nagasaki Port thought it was an earthquake, and knelt on the ground in fear, kowtowing their heads, praying for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas and recovering their crimes, not noticing that in the chaos of rocks, there was a thirty-meter-long gap in their originally strong walls, and the Rabid Dog Legion and the combined forces of the Kumamoto and Fukuoka domains poured in against falling rocks and choking smoke......

The end of Nagasaki Castle has arrived.

The composition of the cannon fodder of the Rabid Dog Legion is very complex, there are defeated and captured Xiaori samurai, there are Xiaori young and strong who were captured from the city, there are Xiaori peasants who voluntarily joined, and there are also some small feudal lords who were originally weak and humble, but there is no lack of ambition, and they want to take advantage of the invasion of the Ming army to make a fortune, as well as bankrupt sailors, pirates or something, the personnel composition of these guys is extremely complex, but they have one thing in common, that is...... Poor!

What happens when a bunch of deservedly poor guys rush into a bustling big city? I want to get it with my knees. Killing, looting, arson, these atrocities spread like a plague, and the figures distorted in the blazing fire, and the rough laughter and mournful cries became the main theme of the city.

"Marshal, I just received information that the Tokugawa shogunate has sent troops!"

"Oh, they're finally giving up!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "How many people are coming?" ”

"It is said that there are 12,000 banner samurai, more than 23,000 ashigaru, and dozens of daimyo lords, almost 50,000 or 60,000 horses!"

"Is it only fifty or sixty thousand horses?"

If Tokugawa Iemitsu heard Cheng Shijie's words, he would definitely cry and pee, don't look at Cheng Shijie's face full of disdain, in fact, the Tokugawa shogunate has already used its strength to eat.

The army has to eat along the way, the transfer of grain and grass, and the allocation of a large number of weapons, all of which require a large number of manpower, and the mobilized people also need to eat.

Therefore, every time the Ning Navy sends troops, the preparation time is very short, and it can be said that at most tens of thousands of troops can be dispatched in one day, 50,000 or 60,000 troops in three days, and 100,000 troops in 10 days.

The Tokugawa shogunate was more difficult, they had 80,000 elites, but these 80,000 horses could not move, the reason was that there was not enough food and grass, there was not enough equipment, and there was no good road like Liaodong.

Originally, Cheng Shijie was ready to withdraw his troops and return to the division, but the problem was that Tokugawa Iemitsu actually sent troops, and he didn't say: "him!" ”

"Pass the order, Li Zhixiang will return from Ogijo and be responsible for intercepting the reinforcements of the Tokugawa shogunate!"

"Command...... The Death Battalion prepares to retreat! ”

When the Ning Navy was preparing to retreat, Xiao Ri was making a fortune in Nagasaki City, and now Cheng Shijie is like a fortune boy, exchanging food and low-value industrial goods for the treasures they have captured in the hands of the Kumamoto and Fukuoka domains.

As for the capture of the Rabid Dog Legion, it is naturally Cheng Shijie's.

With a group of young captives and a carload of gold and silver treasures on the ship, Cheng Shijie found that his more than 500 ships were actually insufficient.

Seeing the needle is what Catherine does best: "Your Excellency, do you want to hire more ships?" ”

"That's right, you're not going to bring the Venetian fleet to the day, are you?"

"Actually, it's more than that!"

Catherine said with a smile: "I can also hire the transport ships of the Dutch East India Company, a total of thirty-three, plus our Venetian fleet, we can have a carrying capacity of 40,000 tons, how about it, the price is negotiable!" ”

"Count you ruthless!"

Cheng Shijie had to accept Catherine's coercion, there was no way, there were too many seized materials and gold and silver treasures, and it seemed that the Ning Navy would need to build more transport ships in the future.

We must make up for the shortcomings of the serious shortage of transportation capacity.

Sun Kewang looked at these soldiers of the Rabid Dog Legion and said, "Dashuai, what should they do?" Do you want to bring it back to your country? ”

"Qingzhuang was brought to Liaodong to build roads for mining, as for these rabid dog legions!"

Cheng Shijie thought of Annan: "Send these little days to Annan, and let the little days and Annan monkeys eat dogs!" (End of chapter)