Xinshun 1730

Chapter 338

At the top of the mountain, it was an embarrassing meeting.

Dahei Shengsheng and Mrs. Lin An were staring at Shi Shiyong, thinking they had misunderstood, and looked at each other for a long time, and then they were sure that it was the riding and shooting master from Tang Dynasty that they had seen in Edo.

Shi Shiyong was wearing a general's official uniform, at this moment he raised his head, cupped his hands and said, "Long time no see."

Dahei was victorious and determined that this was Shi Shiyong, but he was relieved first.Since he is from the Tang Dynasty, at least he will not be a Catholic, so he can let go of his worst worries.

Shi Shi stood in front of Liu Yu himself knowing the uprightness of Mrs. Lin An, who was next to him, and the guards beside him also took out flintlock pistols in case of accidents.

Seeing the embarrassing situation, Liu Yu said first, "My official is Liu Yu, the envoy of Yingsuobo and Jinghai Jiedu. You and other ministers of a small state, seeing the Earl of the Celestial Dynasty, why don't you pay homage?"

Dahei was so victorious that he was sure that this was an official figure of the Tang Dynasty. He was just about to say a few words of disapproval when he was kicked on the knee by the guard next to him, making him kneel on the ground.

The two were so humiliated that they wanted to fight to the death, but they had to hold back because they still had a task to do.

"Earl of the Tang Kingdom, why did you come to the Land of the Rising Sun?"

"There are two things. One is that the people of the Satsuma clan invaded the Ryukyu, the vassal domain of the Celestial Dynasty. The Holy Emperor was furious and ordered me to visit Ryukyu. The Lord is about to go to Edo and ask the shogun how to deal with the Satsuma clan? , the shogunate should also send the hostages to the heaven to apologize, and to quell the grievances against Ryukyu. Otherwise, when the emperor is angry, you and the small country will have millions of corpses!"

After making a fuss, and seeing that the anger of the two was aroused, Liu Yu said again: "The second thing is that I was entrusted by someone. Originally, I should go to the Satsuma clan Kagoshima is right, or go directly to Edo."

"However, I have a friend who turned out to be a retainer of the Changzong Gabe clan. Later, your feudal lord, the Yamauchi clan, occupied this place. It is said that they killed all the retainers of the Nagzong Gabu clan. It is said that a sumo tournament was held in a fake manner. , and built a celebration tower? While waiting for the old ministers of Changzong’s family to come to see, the gunpowder below was ignited, killing many people.”

"Even if there are lucky ones who survived, they are quite discriminated against in Tosa. Some people fled to the Celestial Dynasty. I had a good chat with him. After hearing about this, I was entrusted by him to come here to ask the Yamauchi family for justice."

The attendants and officers at the side all grew up listening to "The Legend of Heroes", and they are familiar with the word Qinggonglou.

Naturally, Dashun also had various stories about the opening of the Heiqing Gonglou, all of them were holding back their laughter, Mr. Xindao put his heart into it, at least it was about the sumo wrestling tournament...

Saying this, Dahei's competitive face suddenly became extremely ugly.

Some tongue-twisting people in Tosa really had stories about killing old ministers in a sumo tournament. This kind of conspiracy story has always been very popular in the market.

But the problem is...their ancestors were not only the retainers of the Changzongwo clan, but also a branch of the Changzonggabu clan, who died fighting for the Changzonggabu clan in the battle of Hucichuan.

In any case, the new feudal lord, the Yamauchi clan, did not treat the old ministers of the Changzong family really badly, and the old ministers of the Changzong family rebelled every day.The original "one-collar and one-foot system" implemented by Tuzuo, people with more than [-] acres of land must produce a full-armored samurai, which is a bit like the Fubing system.These people are local snakes, but later the peasants and soldiers were separated and discriminated against. The new feudal lord bought some of the upper class, and the lower class was given to a villager.

On the one hand, Dahei is victorious and feels that Liu Yu is humiliating his family who betrayed the old master.

On the other hand, I also understand that there are great contradictions within the Tosa domain, and the old divisions of the old domain lords have indeed received some unfair treatment. If they really use this reason to start an incident, I am afraid that some villagers will really stand on the side of Dashun. Well, it's very possible.

Liu Yu just made up a nonsense joke, looking for an excuse to find something for Tosa Fan to do.

Dahei was so victorious that he didn't know whether what Liu Yu said was true or not, and it sounded like that.Thinking about it again, it is impossible for an Earl of the Tang Kingdom to just talk nonsense. Could it be true that someone fled to the Tang Kingdom after the lock-up order?
"Earl of the Tang Kingdom, what is the name of this warrior?"

"Sakamoto Ryoma."

He muttered a name casually, and Dahei thought about it for a long time, but he had never heard of such a character.

He still wanted to say something, Liu Yu said: "I heard that the Japanese country does not have a benevolent government and lacks education, so I came to see it. I also saw that this place is good, and it is quite suitable for building a city as a military port for the stay of the Celestial Dynasty. It can also be used to educate the people of Tosa You can return quickly and report back to Yamauchi Kashiki, saying that since Urado Castle is the old city of Nagamune and my tribe, and this noble is entrusted by his old tribe, this place belongs to me."

"My name, even if you think about it, you have never heard of it. You can go to Edo and ask Tokugawa Yoshimune, I have met him."

"I was present for Xiangbao reform, and I suggested sweet potatoes to save the famine. Last time you were famine here, I sent a lot of rice to Nagasaki. Maybe you two have eaten the rice I shipped."

A few casual words completely ignited the anger of the two of them, especially the lack of respect for their feudal lord and general in the words.

Liu Yu took a step back, signaled the guards to let them go, waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and report the news, I'll wait here. If your feudal lord doesn't come, it's useless, I won't leave. see a visitor out!"

The guards pushed the two of them down the mountain. Liu Yu took out his pocket watch to check the time, and said: "Don't worry about the night attack tonight, they can't organize it so fast. Leave the sentry and tell the brothers to hurry up." It's time to rest. Taking advantage of the good weather tonight, it's time to measure the longitude and latitude."

The naval officers and students around him are already familiar with Liu Yu's way of doing things. Thinking about the nonsense just now, Chen Qinghai couldn't help laughing and said, "The reason your lord is looking for is really..."

"What is it really? You have too little knowledge, and there are many reasons. I don't need to look for it. It's just to leave a little psychological shadow on the Tosa clan, and to deepen the gap between some old and new ministers. This gap already exists, and I take advantage of the trend. It’s just to deepen it.”

Chen Qinghai looked at the surrounding terrain and praised: "Your Excellency has a good vision in choosing a military port. This place is indeed suitable as a military port, especially this Urado city. But if we withdraw and come back in the future, the Japanese must be prepared."

Liu Yu shook his head.

"I won't withdraw for the time being. The Marine Corps will stay here for the time being. I estimate that the Tosa Domain will gather troops soon and want to take this place back. There will be heavy casualties, and it will be impossible to take it. I'm making some trouble here, and 500 people guard this place In the place, two warships were left to block the sea route until September and October before withdrawing, so that the Japanese thought we were planning to land on Shikoku Island."

"For the defense of the coast, we would rather believe what we have than what we don't have. If this battle is fought well, the Japanese will understand the strength of our army, so that they will not dare to act alone and can only wait for the army to gather. When the army gathers, It takes time, and the coast is full of loopholes, and you dare not take the risk of attacking, and there is no navy, so what would you do if it were you?"

Chen Qinghai thought about Liu Yu's question seriously, and the preconditions had been given. After thinking about it from the perspective of the shogun, he nodded and said, "I understand."

"If I were the shogun, seeing this situation, I would order all the ministries not to advance lightly. And our army can land at any time, but he doesn't know when and where our army is, and there is no navy. He is very afraid of a sea blockade."

"That's why, we need an army of tens of thousands in Kyushu Island, tens of thousands of troops in Shikoku Island, and most of Edo Castle. If Du Feng's attack goes smoothly, a mobile army should also be reserved in the south of Ezo. troops."

"If this is the case, its entire army will be divided into four at least, otherwise it will probably be divided by the navy, making it impossible to cross the sea. Without a navy, we can only gather mobile corps and deploy them in different areas to keep things unchanged."

"The Marine Corps has a lot of artillery, and the shogunate must know that the city cannot be defended. Therefore, we can't shrink our troops to defend the city everywhere. We can only gather field mobile corps and mobilize at any time."

Liu Yu pointed to his head with a smile and said: "The staff officers of the army still can't understand the significance of the navy. The plan they made is pure army thinking. Fortunately, I learned it from me in Weihai. It's been so long."

"The reason why I went to Edo is to let the Japanese know that I can land anywhere. Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, near Edo Castle, and even Ezo."

"The reason why I stayed in Tosa was to let the Japanese know that our army is so strong in field battles that they had to divide the troops into mobile corps as you said. Otherwise, why would the Japanese infantry have two legs? Run over the sails?"

"That's why I angered the Tosa clan. I asked the people of the Tosa clan to send troops to fight. After the fight, I realized that the heavenly soldiers are less than a thousand, and they are invincible. Only when all these points are achieved, can the shogunate have to do what we think. deploy."

Chen Qinghai whispered: "What if they don't come to fight?"

"That's easy. Find the group of translators, go to the towns below to promote benevolence and morality, and let the local people practice 'Yiku'. The people don't know how to do it, so I can teach you. Dividing granary rice and burning usury IOUs are the means of starting a dynasty , I still will."

"There are also those remnants of the old feudal lord era, they are all willing to listen to the lecture. Compared with attacking the city, they may be more afraid of our words. Guaranteed to attack within three days."

After understanding the strategy involved, Chen Qinghai Xindao's actions were really vicious.

Then I said goodbye to Liu Yu. As the battle commander of the fleet, he couldn't sleep on the shore at night and had to go back to the ship.

In the early morning of the second day, one-third of the gunners were transferred from each warship, landed in Urado Castle, and pulled all the heavy artillery of the Marine Corps to the mountain one by one.

Although all the buildings on the mountain have been demolished, the bases are still there and are very flat; the wood is gone, but the broken walls remain. The commanding troops deployed artillery emplacements and built a simple parapet.

Before the troops of the Tosa domain were assembled, all the trees that affected the shooting area were cut down, or tents were built, or they were used to keep warm at night.

The [-]-pound guns pulled up the mountain were all aimed at the river. Because of this headland, the fleet could not block the river, but the guns on the mountain could completely seal the river.

The remaining artillery was aimed at the only possible direction of attack, the west side of Urado Castle.The three directions of east, south, and northeast are all within the cover of the warship. Liu Yu is sure that he will go around here and wait for the future. Japan must repair the fort in this place, but it will be meaningless to repair it when the time comes. Now, I am not stupid, why do I have to rush to such a dangerous place?

There are a total of [-] marines on the mountain, and one-third of the gunners drawn by the warships are also nearly [-]. This kind of defense is based on the terrain, and the attacking side has almost no cannons, and there may not be too many iron guns and bird guns. Liu Yu is full of confidence as the fleet supports the defense of the city with complete control over the sea.

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In Kochi City, Dahei, who was victorious, told the important retainers who stayed behind about meeting Liu Yu in Pudo City, and the faces of these retainers became extremely ugly.

The Ryukyu matter has nothing to do with the Tosa clan, so if you go to fight Satsuma, go and fight.Or go to Edo for accountability, it doesn't matter.It would be good to take down Edo, and the foreign daimyo can't wait for it.

What really worried these remaining retainers was what Dahei Shengsheng said about the situation of the Tosa clan's peasants. This is what the Tosa clan is most afraid of.

"In my opinion, the villagers should be assembled, locked up and monitored. If there is any change, they can be killed first."

"If the Tang people come to attack at that time, they may cause chaos for internal affairs. They will definitely make peace."

(End of this chapter)