The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 705
Under the original city, an earth-shattering offensive and defensive battle killed the sky and the earth.

Amakusa Tokisada wielded a pheasant knife and went to battle in person. Seeing the leader of the sect took the lead, the tenacious army of believers went forward and succeeded bravely. The corpses piled up under the city and at the top of the city. In the end, the shogunate army lost more than [-] soldiers and declared the siege failed.

Unable to attack by force, Nobuzuna Matsudaira decided to siege for a long time, and 10,000+ troops surrounded Hara Castle.

A few days later, a navy with more than [-] large warships and [-] merchant ships arrived from the sea. They directly bombarded the Mizuno Katsunari Department, which was defended by the sea, indiscriminately. Blow up this army to pieces.

This huge fleet is of course the coalition formed by the "Huaxia Navy" and the Li Guozhu Group.

The merchant fleet of the fleet docked, and more than a thousand Westerners, led by a few missionaries carrying huge crosses, rushed into Mizuno Katsunari's defeated soldiers.

For a moment, gunshots rang out and smoke filled the air. The shogunate army was defeated and three thousand corpses fled. The several miles of road from the port to the original city were immediately opened up.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of weapons and food were unloaded from the merchant ship, and 2 people from Yuancheng came out to participate in the defense and rush to transport supplies.

Amakusa Tokisada met missionaries who had traveled thousands of miles to participate in the apology, and received a lot of supplements. He strengthened his confidence in self-government to defeat the Tokugawa shogunate.

Amakusa Tokisada wants to establish a Catholic country, and he wants to try a rule where politics and religion can be unified.

The general of the shogunate, Nobuzuna Matsudaira, has lost more than 1 people, and Hara Castle still cannot be conquered. Now there is a new situation, there is still no siege there, and there are continuous ships from the sea to send believers from all over Kyushu into Hara Castle to join the rebel forces.

The fierce battle continued until Xia Tian, ​​and there were many casualties on both sides every day, and it seemed that the winner could not be determined in a short time.

If the Tokugawa shogunate continues to procrastinate, its finances will be exhausted and it will be unsustainable. This civil strife will undoubtedly shake the country's foundation.

Li Guozhu, who was fishing in troubled waters, was not idle. In the spring, he took the opportunity to capture the Wudao Islands with the assistance of the "Huaxia Navy", and the territory he controlled more than doubled.

The morale of the Japanese shogunate army was low, and the supply lines were repeatedly cut off, so it was difficult to supply medicine and food. The hot summer had come, and the plague broke out in tens of thousands of troops who were often hungry and lacked medical care. people die.

As time passed, the situation of the shogunate army became more difficult. They had lost the power to attack Hara Castle. Now Nobuzuna Matsudaira was thinking about how to lead the remaining troops to retreat safely.

This civil strife is bound to last for a long time, Huang Sheng decided not to participate, and ordered Zhao Shimin to continue to maintain the status quo, as long as it was ensured that Amakusa Tokisada had territory and troops that would not be wiped out by Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the Ming army would not land to fight.

Now that "Nanming" has many channels to obtain copper, and the Japanese country has almost cut off foreign trade, and they are in urgent need of military expenses, it will be a while before they get into trouble.

Huang Sheng decided to weaken them again economically. From now on, the price of copper exported from the Wa country will be calculated as one silver coin to buy thirty catties.

The prices of all Wa country’s export products have been lowered by more than [-]%, and the prices of all Wa country’s imported products have been increased by [-]%. The island country is strictly sealed off to implement an arms embargo, and all foreign ships that come to trade are arrested or sunk.

This is of course an economic blockade of the country, while continuing to support the expansion of the Christian army and encourage them to attack the city.

The war in Japan has already started a prairie fire, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Kitakyushu have been beaten into darkness.

The Wa Kingdom was already very poor. Natural disasters and military disasters led to a sharp drop in food production. Famine quickly swept across the islands, and there were countless people who sold their children and daughters.

Because there is no such thing as filial piety in the Wa country, there are too many old people who have lost their labor force in the whole country and are sent to the mountains by their children to starve to death. This is not sensational, and their folk customs are like this.

Many foreign vassals were so overwhelmed that they were unable to send troops and labor. They began to separatize one side in order to protect themselves from the Tokugawa shogunate's propaganda.

Hokkaido was not originally the land of the Wa Kingdom, but it is now called the Land of Ezo. The Wa Kingdom has just begun to conquer.

As the shogunate army was dispatched, Ezo got a respite, from being passively beaten and hiding in the mountains and dense forests to take the initiative to attack, and even launched a big battle to besiege the town.

There is no doubt that the dominant power rule of the Tokugawa shogunate is about to be broken, and the Warring States struggle will be staged again soon. With Huang Sheng deliberately trying to balance it, there is no doubt that the civil war in Japan will be protracted.

Arranged for the deployment of the Japanese country, Huang Sheng will have a big move next.

The first move was to take down the Malay Peninsula. This territory already belonged to a mess. It turned out that the relatively large king Sultan Mahmud Shah was beaten away by the Portuguese more than 100 years ago.

The current Malay Peninsula is very chaotic. A few years ago, the rising Sultanate of Aceh took over the tin mine Pahang, and the sultans there were also taken away. As for how many sultans there are in the Malay Peninsula, that is, how many so-called The king, it's really hard to say.

Pahang is located on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, with the Tahan Range, Terengganu Highlands and Cameron Highlands to the north. How can the "Dahan Mountains" become the mountains of other countries?This is simply intolerable.

Due to the unique geographical location and tin deposits, wars continued on this land. The Spanish and Portuguese competed endlessly with the Dutch, the English and Gauls also began to get involved, and the native sultans continued to attack each other.

The geographical location of the Malay Peninsula is particularly important, and it is even more chaotic due to the intervention of many Western countries.

In order to quell the fighting, the great Ming Dynasty sent troops to take down this ominous place, so as not to hurt the peace of all countries.

Huang Sheng issued an order that the total of the eighteen thousand cavalry that Huang Dongshan trained in "Nanhua Island" had expanded to [-] cavalry, adding auxiliary troops to form twelve battalions, and after three months of training, they crossed the Strait of Malacca and captured the city of Malacca.

During the march, no matter whether you encounter Xiyi or monkeys, you will be treated equally, and those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy.

The second order was issued to Cheng Quangong, ordering him to form the garrison of Jiaozhi, which had more than doubled in size, into fifteen battalions. Come to the eastern part of the peninsula, Jilan Sultanate.

Cheng Quangong only needs to be satisfied that there are six battalions left to guard Jiaozhi. Guangnan Kingdom and the declining Lancang Kingdom are also Laos.

Jiaozhi has been in business for many years, and now has a population of 500 million with Han people as the main ethnic group. When defending their homes, there are no less than one million young and middle-aged men who can take up arms and fight. If two small countries dare to invade, who will fight in the end? Not sure.

(End of this chapter)