Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 275

Beihai Town first followed the order of the battalions and companies. The soldiers walked down the gangway and boarded the catamaran passenger ship through the springboard.

After it was full, the catamaran sailed to the beach carrying two companies of soldiers.When the catamaran was still 200 meters away from the beach, the soldiers came to the beach at high speed from the stern of the ship into the assault boat towed behind in the order of each squad.Four assault boats are towed behind each catamaran, and two squads of soldiers can be brought ashore at a time.

On the small hill of Pinggen Mountain, a warrior wearing red armor of "fullness of the world" held a binoculars and stared dumbfounded at the black boat in Beihai Town. A short stick protruding from a square box.With the white waves surging from the stern of the boat, it quickly rushed to the beach.

"What kind of ship is that!" The warriors in charge of security were shocked.They can't imagine that there are ships in this world that can be propelled by themselves without sails.

As for the Thor, they all thought it was the same as shutting down the ship, except that the mast was lowered when the ship was stopped.

Danzawa Hisaoemon, who was standing on the beach in charge of making contact, noticed that none of the soldiers in Beihai Town wore swords on their waists, but a half-hidden gun attached to the muzzle of the gun that they carried with them. sharp dagger.

"It turns out that these people's iron cannons all carry a gun sword. It is estimated that after the bullets are fired, they can be used as spears directly. However, the iron cannon is only three feet long, and even with the gun sword, it is better than two guns." Much shorter!"

The soldiers from Beihai Town, who landed first, rushed to the beach and immediately released sentries in groups of two. These sentries were arranged around the screen, with each group separated by 50 meters, monitoring every move of the shogunate.

And when a company of soldiers from Beihai Town finished landing, the company commander Mishiro (Yichiro) ignored the officials of the Uraga Prefectural Office on the beach, and immediately sent a platoon to order them to quickly occupy the top of Mount Pinggen on the right.

After Monk Zhou received the order, he first ordered his subordinates to complete the team, and then ordered the previous triangular battle formation to march towards the top of Pinggen Mountain, which is only more than 20 meters above sea level.

This can stab the hornet's nest of the shogunate army. When they saw more than 30 people forming a very loose formation on the beach and rushing towards their own side, the banner warriors on the mountain immediately began to scream.

"They rushed over!"

A few warriors in red full-foot armor drew out their waist knives and ordered to all the warriors: "The enemy is coming, line up!"

"Ho!"

The bearded warrior wearing leather armor gathered his courage and stood behind the antler fence with a spear in his hand.Behind him, a dozen bow-wielding warriors had set up their arrows and were ready to shoot.

"Stop those who come! Don't come close!" The captain of the banner samurai raised his sword and shouted.

"Platoon leader, there are people on the top of the mountain, what should I do?" An infantry squad leader from an island country asked Monk Zhou.

Monk Zhou said nonchalantly: "Stop advancing, Squad [-] warns with anti-aircraft fire, Squad [-] and Squad [-] get ready for battle."

As the gunshots of ping-pong-pong sounded from the foot of Pingen Mountain, the banner warrior who led the team fell down first, and shouted: "The enemy's iron artillery is attacking! Lie down!"

Before the captain could finish speaking, all the banner warriors and ashigaru, including the bearded warrior, were so frightened that they immediately lay down on the ground, their faces livid.

After a while, everyone waited for the gunshots to subside, only to realize that there was nothing wrong with their bodies, and there was not even a single bullet hole on the wooden shield behind the antlers.

"Hey! It turned out to be a scare." Seeing that the wooden shield was intact, the bearded warrior jumped up and down happily.The other warriors slowly climbed up one by one, carefully looking down the mountain.

"Your Excellency, what do you mean?!" On the beach, Tanzawa Hisaemon, who hadn't slept all night, glared at Mishiran and questioned.

Mishiran looked at the warrior in the dark blue shoulder jacket, and said after a while: "We are going to set up a guard post. Are there any people on the top of the mountain?"

"You are standing on the land of our country now, please do all actions according to our requirements!"

"Sorry, we have to leave our safety to our own protection. Don't worry, our people will evacuate immediately after the negotiation is over. We have no interest in occupying the backcountry here."

Hearing the other party speaking with a Mutsu accent again, Tanzawa Hisaoemon felt that the entire world view had collapsed!I thought to myself, why don't all the good obedient citizens go to hang out with Tang Yi?Sendai clan bastards!

"Please wait a moment, I'm going to ask the acting magistrate for instructions. During this period, please don't be impulsive, so as not to cause unbearable things to happen to both parties."

Faced with Tanzawa Hisaemon's plea, Mishiran agreed after thinking about it, and then ordered a soldier: "Notify Platoon Leader Zhou, stop advancing, and stay alert."

At this time, as more and more soldiers landed in Beihai Town, the warriors standing guard around the Whale Cut field found desperately that they had been surrounded by the opponent.

When Matsudaira Sadanobu and his subordinates who were in the Imperial Palace heard the report from the front, saying that Tang Yi was going to set up a "warning line" and almost collided with the guards on the top of Pinggen Mountain, they couldn't help being furious.

He first ordered someone to send an urgent report to Edo, asking for more troops; then he ordered Tanzawa Hisaoemon to inform Beihai Town that every plant and tree on the Sanki Peninsula was under the shogunate's territory, and no one had the right to invade it.

Right now, the opposition in Edo City are closely watching his every word and deed. If Matsudaira Sadanobu dares to agree to this matter, he, the Marquis of Shirakawa, will be able to do it, let alone the senior middle-ranking officials.

When he heard Songping Dingxin's reply that he did not allow Beihai Town to set up a guard post on Pingen Mountain, Zhao Xin knew what the other party thought after a little thought, so he ordered: "Let Pan Xiucheng line up on the beach! The artillery is ready, and the muzzle is aimed at Pinggen Peak!"

The drone operated by Ding Guofeng had already noticed the top of Pinggen Mountain and the shogunate defense line on the northwest side.The dignified shogunate was actually frightened into such a virtue, which shows how bad the armament is.

Zhao Xin decided that if the talks went well today, then before leaving, he would let the Thunder God enter Edo Bay, release the drone to fly around the imperial castle, and see what the Ooku of the Tokugawa family is like.

Following the announcement of Zhao Xin's order, 500 people have landed on the beach in battalion units, enclosing three sides of the formation.

It was impossible to go up Pinggen Mountain, but the battalions still sent out guard posts to both sides of the beach for strict vigilance.Those fishermen and residents of Uraga Town who tried to get closer to watch the excitement were scared by the gun-toting sentries in Beihai Town and fled in all directions.

At noon, when Baihehou Songping Dingxin, surrounded by a group of gun-wielding warriors in red, appeared at the same time, Zhao Xin, who was wearing a white captain's uniform, also began to board the ship.

Monk Zhou's platoon was sent by Pan Xiucheng to serve as Zhao Xin's guard, so when Zhao Xin and Songping Dingxin sat in the north and south Zhaomu, behind them were a group of ten warriors and thirty soldiers from Beihai Town .

Uraga, who is in charge of security at the venue, has a look at what's going on!Right now, the shogunate doesn't care what it wants, only face is left.So he immediately transferred twenty more armed warriors to stand on both sides of Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Seeing Zhao Xin, who was tall and dressed in clothes that were not at all Han Chinese, Matsudaira Sadanobu was a little dizzy from the snow-white captain's uniform.

At this moment, only Zhao Xin said: "My name is Zhao Xin, and Guijue is the Marquis of Baihe, right?"

Matsudaira Sadanobu couldn't help being surprised to hear Zhao Xin speaking in a Kanto dialect.He pondered for a while before slowly saying: "Your Excellency is Tang Yi's big boss?"

"No!" Zhao Xin looked at the thin young man opposite him wearing a black tasseled crown, a red hat rope, and a black court dress, and smiled, "It's Beihai."

After finishing speaking, he nodded to Monk Zhou behind him.Two soldiers from Beihai Town came out immediately, and slowly opened a map made by Beihai Town, facing Songping Dingxin.

"The areas marked in red on the map are all our territory."

Matsudaira Sadanobu took a closer look, couldn't help clenching his teeth, and clenched his hands tightly on his thighs.

The entire map covers the eastern part of the Qing Dynasty and the vast area from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Ryukyu.

On the map, the four northern islands, the Qiandao Islands, Kuye Island, and even the vast area belonging to the Jilin General's Mansion outside the Manchurian Customs are marked in light red; while Ezo is marked in light blue.

These places are too close to the island country, and Matsudaira Sadanobu felt the pressure instantly.

Pointing to the map, Matsudaira Sadanobu asked, "Are you very close to the country of Kamosigorduga?"

In the 1759th year of Baoli ([-]), Kokaku no Susumu, a vassal of Matsumae, was investigating the escape of the Ainu people to the south, and learned from them that there was a kind of "red Einu" in the north.These Akaizo hunted furs and imposed heavy taxes on local residents, accompanied by powerful suppression. Jue Zhijin reported the matter to the Matsumae Domain and the shogunate, so the shogunate initially added the term according to the investigation of the Cossacks. It is the "Kama West Gorduga Country". (Note)
Zhao Xin nodded and said: "Yes, we have completely wiped out the Lu country bandits on Bitter Leaf Island, and we have captured many of them back to work as coolies."

Because Zhao Xin is a Han Chinese, and the island country at this time respects the Confucianism of Zhu Zi's school, and it is a consensus to "emphasize China and despise barbarians".So all the warriors, including Matsudaira Sadanobu, showed extremely complicated expressions when they heard Zhao Xin's answer.

"When did the Ainu people become a country on their own?"

Zhao Xin said to Matsudaira with a serious face: "One of the purposes of my personal visit this time is to hope that the shogunate can understand that Ezodi is not your place. The Matsumae clan who extorted and extorted money has been expelled by the Ainu people. Sending troops twice to attack is not worth the loss. I have an agreement here. As the protector of the Great Ainu Kingdom, we ask your country to declare that it will abandon its ambitions for the Ainu Land and open trade with the Great Ainu Kingdom and Beihai Town. , and set up a shop in Yokohama."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Xin asked his subordinates to hand over the text of the agreement to a warrior on the other side.

The reason why Zhao Xin wants to do business and open a business center is to influence a group of island country scholars in this era, and use the strength of Beihai Town to suppress their expansion ambitions in East Asia.

Twelve years ago, with the release of the anatomy book "New Book of Disintegration" translated by scholars such as Sugita Genbaku, it aroused huge repercussions in the island country, and many people in the medical field went to Nagasaki to learn the most advanced medical concepts; and this This influence has also spread to other groups in different scientific fields.

All of a sudden, a large number of Lanxue intellectuals appeared in the island country. They would hold Lanxue seminars, set up Lanxue education, etc., which opened the prelude to the rise of Lanxue in Japan, and the word "Lanxue" began. Enter the field of vision of the general public, and then rise to the ideological level.

And the theory of coastal defense, the theory of rich country and strong army, and even the voices against the shogunate autocracy also began to appear.Lin Ziping, known as one of the "Three Miraculous Men of Wide Administration", put forward the famous "Coastal Defense Theory" in his book "Sea Country Bing Tan" completed five years later, in 1791, advocating that neighboring areas be targeted for aggression.

Later, in his works such as "The Secret Policy of the World" and "The Story of the Western Regions" published in 1798, Honda believed that the ultimate goal of the island country should be to conquer the world. Land expansion, and the implementation of the European colonial system.This person even wished in a whimsical way to move the capital of the island country to the same latitude as London and become England in the East.

It is only 1786 now, whether it is Lin Ziping or Honda Riming, the expansion theory of these people has not yet taken shape.Only by suppressing these people and following the technological culture of Beihai Town as the standard, when Ryoma Sakamoto, Kogoro Katsura, and Takamori Saigo emerge one after another decades later, these people will become loyal lackeys of Chinese civilization.

The expression on Matsudaira Takanobu's face was faint, and he said: "Is there anything else?"

"60 years ago, the Hagi clan committed the crime of killing Tang people in the 'Susa Tang Ship Incident'. This time we demand restitution. If the shogunate does not deal with it, we will send troops to attack the Hagi clan."

"What if we don't agree?"

"It's easy to say, what Baihehou sees now is only half of the people I brought, and the other half is on the boat." Zhao Xinyi pointed to the Beihai town soldiers lined up on the beach, and continued to Matsudaira: "I'm afraid it will be impossible to take down the entire island country." No, but taking down Edo Castle is easy and simple."

"Sixty years have passed, and things are different. Besides, those people are not your subjects, but Qing people. Do you still want to fight injustice for Qing?"

Matsudaira Sadanobu keenly grasped the loopholes in Zhao Xin's words, he didn't talk about the agreement Zhao Xin put forward, but asked aggressively: "Your Excellency separates one side, you should know that 'governance is based on morality, and conduct is based on benevolence and justice. Therefore, those who are respected but have no virtue are dismissed, those who are rich but have no righteousness are punished, those who are cheap but love virtue are honored, and those who are poor but righteous are honored." As a Chinese, how is your doing so different from barbarians?"

Zhao Xin didn't know that what Matsudaira Takanobu said later came from Lu Jia's "Xin Yu" in the Han Dynasty, but he also caught the loopholes in the other party's words.

"Those who are humble but love virtue are honored, and those who are poor but righteous are honored? Haha, your words are really ridiculous! May I ask if the untouchables in your country are considered human? May I ask if the poor in your country are considered human? If they are considered human, ask Zi Tianming Who are the millions of people who starved to death in ditches every day for three years and were eaten by wild dogs? The Ainu live in poverty, but why do they endure the oppression of the Omi merchants and the Matsumae clan?"

Zhao Xin cleared his throat and continued: "Marquis Baihe, I heard that you have a good governance, and no one died in your territory. I'm afraid you didn't count the peasants who lost their land, that is, the untouchables? households, what will happen if the rice in the warehouse is distributed to the surrounding farmers?"

"You!" Matsudaira Takanobu couldn't hold back at last, his face turned green and pale at times when Zhao Xinqi's lips trembled.

Zhao Xin chuckled and continued his efforts: "To tell you the truth, I have plenty of food and ammunition on board, which is enough to stay in Edo for half a year. To capture Edo, I don't want a grain of rice, and give it all to the farmers. Do you think the common people will support it?" The shogunate still supports me? There are still 1 soldiers like this in Beihai. As long as I am willing, they will come in three days later on an iron ship twice the size of the Thor. Marquis Baihe, the shogunate is responsible for this agreement. If you sign, you have to sign, if you don’t sign, I will make you sign!"

As soon as Zhao Xin said this, Matsudaira Sadanobu and dozens of warriors all changed face.

Matsudaira Takanobu left, he did not dare to agree to Zhao Xin's conditions.Not to mention that he is not yet a veteran, as long as he dares to nod his head, tomorrow someone will shout to crusade against the national traitors, and even destroy him on behalf of the sun.

So when Zhao Xin returned to the Thor, two D30s launched a deterrent bombardment of the shogunate defense line on the top of Pinggen Mountain.After that, Pan Xiucheng ordered two companies to launch an attack. After one charge, the two camps of the shogunate on the top of Pinggen Mountain were lost.It didn't take long, as the number of casualties continued to rise, the shogunate army on the west side of Mount Pingen finally couldn't hold it anymore and began a hasty retreat.

The breakthrough of the Pinggenshan defense line means that there is no heavy barrier between here and Uraga's execution office.The troops of Beihai Town then quickly crossed the plain area southeast of the "Okurasho" and launched an attack on Nishiuraga in one go.

When Matsudaira Sadanobu heard the first cannon fire, he immediately abandoned the sedan chair, rode on a fast horse, and galloped towards Edo Castle with his men.

In the evening, Yori and Tongxin, who fought hard to resist, retreated to Uraga Town to resist with the few ashigaru.As the fires ignited in Tongxin Town and Yuli Town, the gunfire in Uraga Town gradually subsided.

After nightfall, the soldiers of Beihai Town who searched everywhere finally found Daiguan Uraga who had committed suicide by caesarean section in the Imperial Palace.

At dawn the next day, when several nearby villagers came to the vicinity of the Imperial Storehouse, they were surprised to find a pile of rice sacks piled up outside the warehouse, and the white rice flowed to the ground along the damaged straw bales.

And on a notice board with a large door panel next to it, the big characters "拍りに仁せる" (take it casually) are particularly eye-catching.

"Report to the officials." A farmer said in horror, but his eyes were fixed on the rice bags on the ground.

"You are stupid! The acting officials are all dead, and the warriors have all been chased away by the Huashan army. Where can I report to the officials?"

Those who dare to come out to inquire about news during times of war, none of them are law-abiding people.Several farmers gathered together and murmured for a long time, but saw no one around.So they took off their tattered coats and took more than half of the rice from the damaged bag
If there is one, there will be two. The farmers who heard the news were dispatched at night.When the official sent back to the Imperial Store a few days later, not even a single piece of straw could be seen where the rice bags were piled up.

　Note: Kudo Heisuke, a vassal of Wakayama at that time, once wrote to Tanuma Yiji, advising on active colonization and naval expansion.This time, the book was published as "A Study of Kamo Saigaduka's National Style", which became the pioneering work of Japan's coastal defense theory.

　　
　
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