I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Edo, the shogunate.

As the third-generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu, he was lying comfortably on a soft couch, and two beauties lowered their eyebrows and rubbed his shoulders sympathetically.

Two beautiful boys pinched their feet.

A little beauty gently handed a peeled longan into Tokugawa Iemitsu's mouth.

A servant who is over half a century old is holding a memorial and is reading: "Tokugawa (Tian Yasu)'s family Kai Musashi, the chief executive, Tsu and Izumi Harima Uchiten, made a solemn statement: Since October, the rain has caused disasters, Shangyue City, Zhiyan City, Himeji City, Miki City, etc. suffered a lot, tens of thousands of victims..."

In his hand, there is still a stack of memorials.

Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his hand lightly and said nonchalantly, "Excuse me..."

The little eunuch picked up another memorial: Bungo Prefecture's feudal leader, Nagasaki Division representative, Nagasaki governor Hineno Yoshio, since the Satsuma clan started the war without authorization, Kagoro Castle has suffered losses, border affairs are restless, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa of the Satsuma domain, secretly formed a clique, and was a disobedient minister. In the Bingwu of this month, the Ming Dynasty's general Cheng Cheng, who killed Guangjiu's [-] rebels...! "

It's not that Tokugawa Iemitsu has not received battle reports from Kyushu, but the ass determines the head, and the head determines the thinking.

Now the Tokugawa shogunate has five foreign daimyos. The so-called foreign daimyos refer to the daimyos who were forced to surrender in the Battle of Sekigahara.To give a very simple example, the current relationship between Satsuma and the Tokugawa shogunate is like Cao Cao, who held the emperor to command the princes during the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Cao was the shogunate in the small days.The Satsuma clan is equivalent to Zhang Lu, the prefect of Hanzhong, or Ma Teng in Xiliang.

This type of daimyo has a relatively distant relationship with the Tokugawa clan and has strong independence, so the foreign daimyos have always been the object of the Tokugawa clan's guard against and weakening; however, although the Tokugawa clan established a shogunate, they did not dare Directly weaken a foreign name for no reason.

As early as the Kamakura shogunate era, the shogunate, an authority over the sky and the emperor, has ruled Xiaotian for 400 years, and its rule will continue.

The Genji defeated the Heira family and established the Kamakura Shogunate, the Ashikaga family killed the Genshiki and established the Muromachi Shogunate, Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen rose up to overthrow the Muromachi Shogunate, and then launched an unprecedented fierce battle for the supreme position of the Shogun, and the whole of Japan All involved in the vortex of blood and fire.

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

After eight years of hard work, without gaining an inch of land, 10,000+ Japanese samurai were buried. Toyotomi Hideyoshi vomited blood and died.The game of death that lasted for a hundred years finally came to an end. Tokugawa Ieyasu had the last laugh. After the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Conquerment, the Tokugawa family wiped out the Toyotomi family step by step and took sole power.

To say that all the feudal lords in the whole small day have no strength to threaten the status of the Tokugawa shogunate. Nothing is absolute. Whether it is Genji, Oda clan or Tokugawa clan, they are all down to overcome, and only today s position.

Weakening the strength of the vassal state below is something that the Tokugawa shogunate is willing to see. When Tokugawa Iemitsu received Cheng Shijie leading the Ming army to conquer Kyushu, the first thing he thought of was God helping Tokugawa.

However, among the five daimyos, No.5 is Kuroda’s Fukuoka clan, followed by the fourth Hosokawa clan’s Kumamoto clan, the third Sendai clan’s Date clan, No.2 is Satsuma clan, and No.1 It is the Kaga domain.Now Cheng Shijie's dealing with the Satsuma clan is not harmful to the Tokugawa clan.

Five foreign daimyos, three in Kyushu, Kyushu vassals have always been rebellious against the shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu is very happy to see them being beaten by the Ming army, their strength is greatly weakened, and finally they send troops as saviors, Help them defeat the Ming army that invaded Kyushu.

The Tokugawa shogunate has [-] fierce and brave banner warriors, and the mere [-] Ming army, he doesn't take it seriously.What really gave him a headache was Ming Guo's attitude.Why did the Ming Dynasty send troops to invade Xiaotian for no reason?

It may not be difficult to defeat the Ming army of more than ten thousand, but the difficulty is how to deal with the aftermath. After all, Xiaotian has to face a behemoth with a population of more than [-] million. Tokugawa Iemitsu asked himself that he did not have the skills like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he did not have the courage to risk his life with this behemoth.

Just when Tokugawa Iemitsu was thinking about it, there was a soft knock on the door from outside the door.

"Your Excellency General, Your Excellency Laozhong, please see me!"

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

"Come in!"

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

The one who came was Tokugawa Iemitsu's old Naka Sakai Tadakatsu, who was the highest official in the shogunate.
The maid immediately closed the door, Sakai Tadakatsu kowtowed and said respectfully, "See you, General!"

A smile appeared on Tokugawa Iemitsu's young face: "Your Excellency, please sit down!"

"Thank you, General!"

"Is there a problem?"

Sakai Tadakatsu is the eldest son of Sakai Tadori, the lord of Kawagoe, and his mother, Hokagein, is the daughter of Suzuki Shigenao (Lord of Mikawa Assuke).This guy was a brave and ruthless character when he was young. He has experienced many battles and is also a good hand in governing the local economy. With his extraordinary achievements and political achievements, his position in the Tokugawa shogunate is as firm as a rock. .

Sakai Tadakatsu looked dignified, and whispered: "General, there is news from Kyushu!"

"How's it going?"

"Satsuma..."

"Have you won?"

Sakai Tadakatsu said: "Big defeat!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu raised his thick eyebrows: "A big defeat? How is it possible?"

The feudal clans of Kyushu are strong, especially the Kumamoto clan, Satsuma clan, and Fukuoka clan. If the Kyushu clan join forces, even if the Tokugawa shogunate has [-] samurai, there is no certainty.

"According to the information, the Ming army that Fukuoka and Kumamoto have taken refuge in, they turned their backs. The entire Satsuma army was defeated, and even the last Osumi Castle was lost!"

Sakai Tadakatsu said with a wry smile: "The Ming army possessed hundreds of powerful cannons, and they fired Qingyi-style explosive shells. With one shot, the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked. Fly, chaos!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face became serious.

"In addition, this Ming army is extremely well-equipped, with thick armor, and is invulnerable to swords and guns. When the warriors of Satsuma slashed their knives, sparks flew everywhere. The armor was not damaged, but the samurai swords rolled their blades! Bird guns are not inferior in comparison, and their accuracy is far superior. The Ming army hid behind a kind of fortification made of sandbags. The crossbow arrows shot knocked down the Satsuma soldiers in pieces!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu said in surprise: "The Ming army's equipment is so good? Doesn't it mean that the army is poorer than beggars, and a dozen warriors can defeat them with a thousand households? Why..."

Sakai Tadakatsu said with a wry smile: "That's the soldiers of the guards, naturally they are easy to deal with, but this time they are the first-class elite of the Ming army, so they are not so easy to deal with, otherwise the battle of conquering the dynasty would not have been so miserable. .”

The Korean War is an eternal pain in the heart of the little days. The Nine Route Army attacked North Korea and lost seven or eight out of ten. As these witnesses, they still have lingering fears in their hearts when they mention the Korean War.

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

Sakai Tadakatsu said: "It has been found out that he is Cheng Shijie, the Duke of the Ming Dynasty who defeated the Manchurian cavalry in the Liaoyang battle and wiped out [-] enemies."

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

"It's not just Zheng Sang, the Luzon of the Spaniards, and the senior officials of the Dutch were snatched back by Cheng Shijie. It is said that he also extorted 460 million taels of silver from the Spaniards, and each Spanish hostage was 1000 taels of silver. I also suffered a big loss in their hands!"

Who is the person who has been in the limelight in recent years?That must be Cheng Shijie. During the Battle of Haizhou, he abolished more than [-] slaves. Huang Taiji wanted to take revenge, but the result was even worse. Cheng Shijie wiped out more than [-] soldiers. Now Jiannu None recovered.

If Cheng Shijie is good in land battles, there is nothing to say. After all, Xiaotian and Da Ming are separated by sea, so there is no need to be afraid of him, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie is also good in sea battles. Zheng Zhilong collected protection money from Ning Haijun, and he was furious Then he directly turned the table and wiped out all the more than [-] troops of Zheng's group.

At the same time, the Spaniards and the Dutch, as long as they provoke Cheng Shijie, they will be rubbed on the ground.

While Tokugawa Iemitsu and Sakai Tadakatsu were talking, there were messy footsteps outside the door.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was very upset at being disturbed for no reason. His brows were furrowed and he was angry. A servant ran in in a panic and yelled at the maid outside the door: "Urgent battle report, I want to see Your Excellency the General!"

"Let him in!"

Shiyu was panting like a cow, held up a battle report, and knelt in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu: "Your Excellency, Nagasaki urgent report!"

Senior Nakashi Sakai Tadakatsu hastily reached out to take the battle report and handed it to Iemitsu Tokugawa.

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

Sakai Tadakatsu asked in puzzlement, "Your Excellency, what happened?"

Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "Your Excellency Laozhong, you can see for yourself!"

As Tadakatsu Sakai opened the battle report, it read: "On October 11, the 29th year of Kanyong (the eighth year of Chongzhen), in just one day, the Nagasaki Fort was completely destroyed, hundreds of bombs fell in the city, and countless civilians were killed and injured. ..."

As the saying goes, no one will feel pain if the needle does not pierce the flesh.

When the Ming army attacked the Satsuma clan unscrupulously, Tokugawa Iemitsu was not in a hurry. He had the idea of ​​killing people with a knife. It would be better for the Ming army and the Satsuma clan to die together.Even if they can't die together, the Satsuma clan should be weakened as much as possible.It's different now, the Satsuma clan no longer exists, but Cheng Shijie didn't mean to stop, and now he slashed at Nagasaki again.

You must know that Nagasaki is the money bag of the shogunate. Now Nagasaki is taken over by the Ming army.
Iemitsu Tokugawa gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency Lao Zhong, go down and make arrangements. I will call all the generals to discuss sending troops to Kyushu to fight against the Ming invaders! Also, let someone go to Beijing and ask the Ming court about this! "

Sakai Tadakatsu asked in puzzlement, "Why?"

Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "I want to find out whether the Ming army's invasion was caused by General Cheng, or the Ming court ordered it! Only by figuring out what's going on can we deal with it freely!"

Tadakatsu Sakai understood.If the Ming army’s invasion of Xiaotian was just an act of restraint, it would be enough to force Daming to order the Ming army to withdraw; if the invasion of Xiaotian was ordered by the Ming court, then Japan would be in big trouble...

Although the Tokugawa shogunate enjoyed a period of peace at this time, many generals who had experienced the battle of conquering the dynasty were still alive. The war machine of the Sichuan Shogunate can still run smoothly.

Under the governance of the Tokugawa shogunate at this time, the overall trend is on the rise. The wounds caused by the century-old war are being healed little by little. Therefore, the prestige of the Tokugawa shogunate in the small days is very high. Tokugawa With Iemitsu's order, the Kanto feudal clans mobilized quickly, and armies from all walks of life gathered one after another, heading towards Edo.

And the Banner Samurai under the command of the Tokugawa Shogunate even polished their samurai swords, wiped off the rust spots on the blades of the cross spears, brought dry food, and assembled impatiently, screaming to teach the Ming army a lesson, Some impatient ones went on the road in groups without waiting for the shogunate army to dispatch. It seemed that to them, the Ming army was not a terrible enemy, but piles of money that could walk and move.

When the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops, Cheng Shijie also arrived at Nagasaki Port. After Nagasaki Port was taken down, Nagasaki Castle persisted for eight days with its tall and strong walls.

After eight days and nights of bloody battles, the entire city of Nagasaki was littered with corpses, and more and more ronin and samurai joined Cheng Shijie's command.After all, people have to eat, and the control depends on Cheng Shijie. Each warrior can have a box of [-]-gram canned meat and two [-]-gram compressed biscuits. If one person eats it, there must be no problem.It's much better than following those big names.

Cheng Shijie used food to attract wandering samurai in their small days for two reasons. First, he did not want the power of Kumamoto and Fukuoka to skyrocket too quickly. Second, there were problems in the country.

At the beginning, Cheng Shijie asked Song Xiance to sneak into the Central Plains to act as a bandit in order to prevent the Liao King from intervening in Liaodong.At first Cheng Shijie wanted Song Xiance to be a knife.Whoever troubles Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie asks Song Xiance to kill whoever is the bandit.

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 soared to more than [-] people. Then Song Xiance held high the banner of attacking the local tyrants and dividing the land, and went directly westward. The Guide Mansion was taken down with little effort.

After occupying Guide Mansion, Song Xiance's army surged to more than 2000 people, especially at this time of the autumn harvest. Taking advantage of the fall, Song Xiance divided more than [-] mu of land owned by the landlords of Yanzhou Mansion and Guide Mansion into poor people. , This time the troops under his command increased to more than [-] horses.

Song Xiance also rode a tiger to the south. On the one hand, he attacked Dongchang Mansion and Xuzhou. The court couldn't sit still. Zhang Xianzhong burned Fengyang to white ground with a torch on his front foot. Zhang Xianzhong was finally caught, and he never thought of showing up again. A Song Xiance.

Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to be careless, he directly rejected all opinions and asked Cheng Shijie to go back to quell the chaos of the Dashun Army.Because Cheng Shijie had to return to Daming, he had to expand his victories as soon as possible.

Relying on the Fukuoka and Kumamoto domains alone, it is not a big problem to win Kyushu, but there is not only one Kyushu in the small days, but also the other three islands.

Under such circumstances, in order to have enough food, the samurai and ronin became Cheng Shijie's Rabid Dog Corps in these small days. Samurai Kumamoto and Samurai Fukuoka also quietly joined the Rabid Dog Corps.

Seeing Cheng Shijie arrive in Nagasaki, these samurai warriors from the Rabid Dog Corps showed even more bravery. They rushed towards Nagasaki City screaming with messy weapons, and climbed up the city wall like a bunch of ants.

Although the Xiaori army was beaten out of their bodies by the terrible artillery fire of the Ming army, they still gritted their teeth and fought hard at the critical moment of life and death. The bows, arrows and muskets were fully fired. Rush up the city wall to help in the battle, throw stones at the cannon fodder, or pour a pot of boiling oil, the hit cannon fodder will fall down in strings, and dead bodies will soon accumulate under the city wall thick layer.

However, the fanaticism of this group of cannon fodder far exceeded the imagination of the defenders of Nagasaki Port. After one charge was repelled, they did not stop and immediately launched a second charge. Like a rising tide.The defenders of Nagasaki Port fought hard, and there were piles of dead bodies above and below the city, and blood flowed like rivers.

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

Sun Kewang could tell that he would definitely not be able to win in these small days.

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "You don't need money for shells?"

"Then they won't be able to fight. Over time, their morale will definitely drop!"

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

Not long after, Honda Yourong, who was 1.6 meters tall, walked over. 1.6 meters, among the heights of Ming men, could barely be considered an average height.But the problem is, in the small days, he was like a stand out from the crowd.

"Meet Your Excellency the General!"

"Honda-kun, how many people are you running away from... do this... do this again!"

Cheng Shijie told Honda Yurong about the method of tunneling siege.

Honda Yuei brought a large number of samurai with bows and arrows to shoot at the city wall. After killing and injuring more than 1000 people, they finally arrived at the city of Nagasaki. Dongdong dug fiercely against the city wall.

First, dig a small hole, insert a small bag of explosives to detonate the city bricks, then pry them off with an iron drill, dig out a bigger hole, and then explode...

After tossing for a long time, they successfully made three holes the size of the Eight Immortals Table in that section of the city wall, and fed hundreds of catties of explosives into each hole.Almost ready, with an order, the cannon fodder who were fighting hard on the city wall retreated, and Xiaotian took the opportunity to regain this section of the city wall.

Just as the Nagasaki defenders raised their knives and cheered on the recovered position, a thunderous violent bang cracked the ground, and the entire 30-meter-long city wall turned into an erupting volcano. Hundreds of Nagasaki soldiers were killed. Flying into the air wrapped in broken city bricks...

The soldiers and civilians at Nagasaki Port thought it was an earthquake, knelt on the ground in fear and slammed their heads, praying for the blessings of gods and Buddhas in the sky, and blaming them for their crimes. With a gap of 30 meters, the Rabid Dog Legion and the allied forces of the Kumamoto and Fukuoka domains rushed 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 complicated. There are young warriors who were defeated and captured, some young and strong young people who came from being captured after the city was destroyed, some young farmers who voluntarily joined, and some who were originally weak and humble, but there are many Ambition, small feudal lords who want to take advantage of the Ming army's invasion, bankrupt sailors, pirates, etc. The composition of this group of guys is extremely complicated, but they have one thing in common, that is... poor!

What would happen if a group of poor guys rushed into a bustling big city with open fire?I can think of it with my knees.Killing, looting, arson, these atrocities spread like a plague, figures were distorted in the raging flames, wild laughter and mournful cries became the main theme of the city.

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

"Oh, they are finally willing to send troops!"

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "How many people have they come?"

"It is said that there are 1 banner warriors, more than 6 ashigaru, and dozens of daimyo lords, and there are almost [-] to [-] horses!"

"Only 6 or [-] horses?"

If Tokugawa Iemitsu heard Cheng Shijie's words, he would definitely cry out. Don't look at Cheng Shijie's disdainful face, in fact, the Tokugawa shogunate has already tried its best.

The army has to eat along the way, the transfer of food and grass, and the allocation of a large number of weapons, all of which require a lot of manpower, and the mobilized civilians also need to eat. They are different from the Ning Navy. The Ning Navy has its own supplies and supplies. , Usually there is supply training during training.

Therefore, every time Ning Haijun dispatches troops, the preparation time is very short. It can be said that tens of thousands of troops can be dispatched in one day at most, [-] to [-] troops can be dispatched in three days, and [-] troops can be dispatched in ten days.

The Tokugawa shogunate was more miserable. They had 8 elites, but the [-] horses could not move. The reason was that there was not enough food, equipment, and roads as good as Liaodong.

Originally, Cheng Shijie planned to withdraw his troops and return to the division, but the problem was that Tokugawa Iemitsu actually sent troops, without saying: "Fuck him!"

"Pass the order, Li Zhixiang returns to the army from Dicheng, and is responsible for intercepting the reinforcements of the Tokugawa shogunate!"

"Order... the Death Battalion prepares to retreat!"

When Ning Haijun was preparing to retreat, Xiaotian was making a fortune in Nagasaki City. Now Cheng Shijie is like a boy who sells money, exchanging food and low-value industrial products with the hands of Kumamoto and Fukuoka for the treasures they seized.

As for the seizure of the Mad Dog Legion, it was naturally Cheng Shijie's.

With teams of young captives and loads of gold, silver and treasures loaded onto the ship, Cheng Shijie found that his 500-odd ships were not enough.

Seeing needles is what Catherine is best at: "Your Excellency, do you want to hire more ships?"

"That's right, you didn't bring the fleet of Venice to the small days, did you?"

"In fact, more than that!"

Catherine laughed and said, "I can also hire transport ships from the Dutch East India Company, a total of 33 ships. Together with our Venetian fleet, we can have a carrying capacity of [-] tons. How about it? The price is negotiable!"

"you are vicious!"

Cheng Shijie had no choice but to accept Catherine's threat. There were too many materials and treasures seized. It seems that the Ning Navy will need to build more transport ships in the future.

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

Sun Ke looked at the soldiers of the Rabid Dog Legion and said, "Marshal, what should they do? Are they going to take them back to the country?"

"Young and Zhuang took them to Liaodong to build roads and mines, as for these mad dog legions!"

Cheng Shijie thought of Annan: "Send these little days to Annan, let the little days and Annan monkey dog ​​bite dog!" (End of this chapter)