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Holding the saber high, the samurai Ichikui of the soldier level screamed like killing a chicken and took the lead in the charge. Wearing a cross headband and wearing a white robe, the Ichikui warrior held a long spear, katana, bow and hoe, and various weapons. Deadly charge towards the city hair which is only over three meters high

Up to now, the Shimabara City Army has reached as many as [-]. If you look around, many rebels are crazily beating the Kumamoto City Wall like a white ocean, as if they are about to collapse the city at any time.

It's a pity that people are not sea water after all, it is impossible to really flood down, and Kumamoto City is not a reef, just relying on the iron head to resist, a few days ago, Dongjiang's musket and trench system shined brilliantly, this time it is the turn of the Japanese The iron cannon of the samurai.

"Die!"

On the wall, there is also the same language, the same samurai sword, and the same military policy. While shouting orders, the iron cannon warrior with the neck flag on his back deftly sticks the muzzle out of the wooden firing port, crackling a burst of bullets. Rain, the Shimabara Rebellion in the charge seemed to be punched in a circle by a fist in the air, and the samurai in the lineup fell to the ground one after another.

This row retreated, and the next row rushed up. More than 2000 iron cannons were divided into three rows, causing astonishing casualties continuously.

However, the Shimabara rebels were not unable to fight back. Just when the iron cannon at the top of the city was suppressing it, a rumbling shot hit a wooden wall at the top of the city. The shell pushed the wood with the roar. Debris fell into the crowd, and more than a dozen people screamed and fell directly into the lower city. It was lucky that they died on the spot. A little warrior who was forced to go to the battlefield when he was less than twenty had a broken heel in his thigh. The wood chip, obviously with its leg bones drooping unnaturally, hugged its blood-dripping leg, howling bitterly from the butcher's office.

The ones who benefited the most this time weren't even the Dongjiang Army. After all, Mao Jue's war dividends were still in the Kanto Plain.

The main force of the Japanese army in Kyushu was driven to Chikuqian by Mao Jue. This kind of high-intensity march had already reduced the number of troops in the cold weapon era. From Chikuqian, either by boat or by detour back to their own domain, even if they could go to the battlefield in time, people It's going to be exhausting, and [-]% of the martial arts can't be used to [-]%.

And this time it's not the pirates who are the cannon fodder themselves. There are Shimahara Ichikui and the others rushing forward as cannon fodder. Waiting for a big name to live in the city, although it is impossible to compare the harvest with Hangzhou, it is also tens of thousands of times better than robbing the countryside in the past, and what is more important is that there are many places to rob.

Seeing a cannon hit, the Matsuura pirates who fired the cannon couldn't help cheering like monkeys. Following this gap, the island that was crowded under the city, Yuan Yikui, scrambled up like ants.

The Japanese army didn't have bayonet skills at this time, and they were caught by iron cannons under the city. The Shimabara samurai who rushed in front of him became fierce, and smashed and smashed more than a dozen in a row.

But after all, the samurai family is based on force. After a few whistles, the iron cannon warriors all shrank back, replaced by teams of spear warriors and sword warriors.

In hand-to-hand combat, the Dongjiang army who has undergone intensive training can fight two, and a group of three can fight ten Japanese. However, professional warriors still maintain a considerable advantage against the Yikui army composed of these husbands. In other words, seeing a few Shimabara troops roaring up, a Hosokawa family black-armored samurai walked forward like a stroll in the courtyard, the long knife in his hand was as graceful as a flower arrangement in the hand of a maid, eight steps After that, the six Shimabara rebels were knocked down like lightning, and the rest fled back in fear.

They fought all morning, made a few gaps, and killed a hundred members of the Hosokawa family's retainers, but it was completely different from Hizen's force, leaving corpses all over the place, and the menacing Shimabara rebellion had to come back again. backed away.

But even so, looking at the collapsed city walls and burning ginkgo trees, the ten-year-old Kumamoto feudal lord Tsunatoshi Hosokawa was still sweating, and kept waving his gold-plated military fan. Yelling anxiously.

"Hasn't the shogunate reinforcements arrived yet?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the messenger has been sent out, but according to the news from the Fukuoka Domain, Tang Kou has surrounded Fukuoka City, and the Shogunate General Nobuzuna Matsudaira did not dare to fight at all, so he fled across the sea and returned to Zhoufang."

Just hurried back, the sweaty vassal Kato's words were like cold water poured on the young man's head of the feudal lord of Hosokawa. Hearing the sound of horns under the castle again, those damned pirates were also high-spirited. He raised the muzzle high, and suddenly, Hosokawa Tsunato slapped the military fan on the ground as if he had exploded.

"Send someone directly to the Shimadzu family for help, and tell that old bastard Shimadzu Mitsuhisa that the shogunate can't count on him. If he doesn't help me, once the Kumamoto domain falls, there will be more than [-] people who will kill him at that time." Satsuma, let him figure it out for himself!"

"Yes, the "Samurai Laws" stipulated by the shogunate"

He still hesitated for a while, but before he finished speaking, seeing that his daimyo had already reached out for a knife, the chief retainer immediately knocked his head to the ground in a jerk.

"Hay!"

Unlike Central Plains generals, the foundation of the shogunate's rule is martial arts, whoever is strong speaks hard, relying on the tyrannical wrist, the Tokugawa family suppressed the wolves and the Sengoku daimyo, but now, the shogunate is so unbearable , the rule of the Tokugawa family in Kyushu began to slowly decline.

However, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who paid such a price, still failed to achieve his strategic intentions.

The [-] shogunate troops retreated to the Nagato country on Honshu Island, the territory of the Maori family. Here, the shogunate troops gradually recovered their vitality. However, in this battle, Matsudaira Nobuzuna roared like a lion in a cage. It's been known for a few miles.

"If you don't return to the teacher, it's over! Mori Tsunahiro, if you stop this general again, I'll kill you!"

"Matsudaira-kun, I would like to advise you to save your time! Don't be afraid to tell you the truth, the one who asked my Mori family to stop you here is Mr. Aoyama. In a few days, Mr. Tokugawa Zongqing will bring reinforcements Take over the military power of the Kyushu Crusade."

The relationship between the foreign daimyo and the Tokugawa vassals is not very good, not to mention that the Mori family and the Tokugawa family can be regarded as big enemies. The Mori family has cut down from 120 million stone daimyo to 37, and the policy of banning the sea has also cut off the financial resources of the Mori family. After receiving a secret letter from the Kuroda family, the contemporary owner, Mori Tsunahiro, did not even verify it. Tsuna's way of retreat was blocked, and at the same time, the emissary urgently reported to Edo that Nobuzuna Matsudaira was suspected of treason.

Who told him to take the Kyushu crusade improperly, and actually wanted to bring the Kyushu troops back to Edo? Don't you doubt who he suspects?

Hearing the triumphant words of Mori Tsunahiro, the Izu think tank twitched his hands and wanted to strangle him directly, but after trembling for a while, Matsudaira Nobuzuna sat back on his chair slumped, powerless waved.

"Ben will know, let the Maori Patriarch go down!"

Seeing Mori Tsunahiro go out with a wave of his sleeves in disdain, suddenly, Nobutsuna Matsudaira seemed to explode again, lifted the table and smashed it on the ground.

This is the feeling that everyone is drunk and I am alone. Nobuzuna Matsudaira is the only one who understands the huge Tokugawa family.

The Tokugawa family's dominance of the Japanese kingdom does not depend on the Kyushu Shimadzu Hosokawa Nabeshima and other warring states names. In fact, if the Shimadzu Hosokawa Kuroda family perishes, there will be only benefits to the Tokugawa family's rule. Since Shimabara The turmoil has already raged, so let the Kyushu daimyos consume it, and the shogunate will reap the benefits of the fishermen.

But Sanhe in Kanto is the foundation of the Tokugawa family, where the vassals and general retainers are intertwined. If something goes wrong in this place, the Tokugawa family will become like the third prince of the Dragon King who has been cramped, half dead, Moreover, the strength of the Tokugawa family has been damaged. Will this daimyo from all over the world still be so honest?

However, no one can see through this truth. In order to defend the irrelevant name of Kyushu, he came here with all his strength. If he guessed correctly, Mao Jue was no longer in Kyushu at this time, so he wanted to give up. Like a vulture hovering in mid-air, ready to strike the ground at any moment, to scratch the heads of the unsuspecting Tokugawa family.

It's a pity that it's useless to say anything at this time. Tokugawa Sokei of the Mito Tokugawa family has already brought reinforcements, and the confidant of the Tokugawa family is also destined to encounter wars.

In the decadence of Matsudaira Nobuzuna, a total of 11 Tokugawa shogunate crusades rushed into Ippun County of Nagato Country.

And what he expected was true, when he was captured by the novice warrant and imprisoned, Mao Jue had already appeared in the middle of the entire Wa Kingdom, the Noto Kingdom in Hokuriku.

Compared with Kyushu, where there are more contacts with foreigners, this place is obviously more closed. The fishermen on the shore have never even seen this kind of large sailboat, and they all look at the towering figure of the Black Pearl like fools.

More than a dozen seabirds whirled and screamed, as if they also felt the murderous intent, and slowly put down the telescope. These days, under the warmth of the huge sea honeysuckle, they finally got their voices, full of contempt, Mao Jue It was a sinister sneer.

"Hehe, the grass on the wall, the house from the day before yesterday! It's just fat and oily!"

Chapter 224. A knife out of oil

During the Warring States period in Japan, the most able to live was Tokugawa Ieyasu. The great achievements of the old guy were all achieved by living. His contemporaries such as Takeda Shingen, Kaesui Kenshin, Oda Nobunaga, and even Toyoda Toyotomi Hideyoshi never lived him. By the time Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, Tokugawa Ieyasu had already become the oldest of the Sengoku daimyos.

Of course, the old guy is not just old, he is indeed capable, old age brings prestige and qualifications, and after so many years of fighting, he has also compiled a net of allies, and endured until the end, and the Tokugawa family finally endured the world.

However, Mao Jue felt that the most shameless in the Warring States period of Japan should be counted as the master in front of him who was able to ascend the country.

But it is true that the family of the day before yesterday has the ability to see the wind!

First, he worked for the Sixth Heaven Demon King Oda Nobunaga. Under him, the family of the day before yesterday harvested the first pot of gold, 21 koku from the Noto country. Then Oda Nobunaga was murdered by his subordinate Mitsuhide Akechi in the Honnoji Incident, and the day before yesterday The family took refuge in Toyotomi Hideyoshi again, and mixed into two counties in the neighboring Kaga country.

In the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took good care of the former family, and Maeda Toshiie even sat at the head of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's five ordinations.

But when Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, the Tian family did not want to be loyal to the Toyotomi family, but made another good move. When Ishida Mitsunari set off the Sekigahara War that determined the world, the day before yesterday came to split the bet. The next generation's elder brother Maeda Toshicho went to join the Eastern Army and became a dog for Tokugawa Ieyasu, who used to be an equal. His younger brother Maeda Toshimasa followed the Western Army to play the role of a loyal servant of the Toyotomi family.

As expected, the Western Army where Toshimasa belonged to the day before yesterday lost, and his 21 shi Echizen territory was confiscated and transferred directly to Maeda Toshinaga. By the way, the previous day's family also annexed some other Western Army daimyo territories. After the war, Most of the external daimyos are cutting feudal clans, but his family before yesterday was Zengfan, whose territory has reached 120 million stones in the three kingdoms of Hokuriku, absolutely the first one under Tokugawa.

Given that his family was so fat the day before yesterday, Mao Jue was the first to use it for surgery, and he also chose the family of the previous day of the Kaga domain.

It's really good to have a leading party. Kuroda Mitsuhide, who was captured the year before last, was taken as a hostage, and Kuroda Tadayuki made him his heir. This guy is now a red heart towards Dongjiang. Dozens of Maori family flags with three cakes were flying in front. As soon as the Dongjiang army came ashore with guns, the Japanese fishermen who had just been watching by the sea did not dare to shout or kill or tip off the news. Knelt down on the ground.

No way, the privilege of a samurai in this era is absolutely perverted. Miaozi carries a sword. This sword is not a white belt. A samurai can cut off his head at will under the pretext of being rude. He really holds the power of life and death. The samurai of the Maori family They are also samurai, although they don't know why they came to the previous day's house for business, but if they offend them, they will kill them as well.

Even while Mao Jue and Adelena were looking at each other, facing the direction of the army, there were actually a few village officials tremblingly holding dried fish, dried noodles and other things.

Looking at each other in astonishment, Mao Jue waved his big hand with a smile again: "Take it!"

Noto country is a peninsula, hanging in the Sea of ​​Japan like a pig’s kidney. I have to say that the Japanese navy is no different from the same age. Mao Jue did not land on the opposite south side, but went around to the arc-shaped safe haven of the peninsula. On the side, they landed in Kashima County, which is close to Honshu Island. There was no Japanese ship to intercept them. Along the way, they were kneeling and greeted by these husbands. It was so swaggering that he came directly to the bottom of Ludao City, and it was finally intercepted decently.

At the foot of Kashima Castle, which is not much bigger than Dongjiang Village, there is a guy who looks like a high-ranking samurai with a Mediterranean-style crescent head shaved and a haori hanging down. The samurai, full of bewilderment, came out of a large wooden door that was only two meters high, holding a knife in surprise and speaking Japanese for a while.