Xinshun 1730

Chapter 419 Despair
Now that everything is ready, even the "Dongfeng" is available, Li Yan finally gave the order to board the ship and leave Yonago.

The Qingqi scouts in front quickly retreated after harassing a wave of Ota Ziqing with all their strength; the Marine Corps, which had been rehearsing and boarding the ship all day, assembled in a temporary barracks near Yonago.

The preparations on Oki Island are ready and ready to set sail at any time.

The marines of the navy are all transported by the navy's own transport ships. The fleet coordinated by the trading company that is recruited only needs to send more than 1000 troops and war horses at one time. This is not too difficult to transport.

Horse feed, donkeys, gunpowder, and food are all ready.

The navy's main fleet will lead the marines to attack Xiaohama first, and the cavalry will land later at a staggered time.

Before finally leaving Yonago, Li Yan asked the officers what Liu Yu did in Tosa that day.

If the Dashun army withdraws, the people of the Wa Kingdom will definitely suffer.

As soon as the Japanese warriors came, they would slaughter all these Yikui and the people who helped Dashun to build the city and dig the soil for the crime of adultery.

Few in the army really care about it, and the people in their own country can't control it.

But some of the naval officers knew Liu Yu's general plan. After thinking about it, they felt that the opening of a port here seemed to be a good location, and it was best not to just leave like this.

If the local people's recognition and trust in the Dashun Army can be saved here, it will undoubtedly be of great use.

Here is forming a triangle with Vladivostok and Busan. If the port can be opened during the negotiations, the location will be excellent.

As for places such as Osaka and Obama with better locations, it is estimated that Japan will not agree to it during the negotiation.Just like if Dashun was beaten to the point of being forced to switch at this time, it would be difficult to accept letting Tianjin go directly.

The two best places are too close to the two political centers of Japan, it is better to settle for the second best.

The staff officers shared this idea with Li Yan, and Li Yan thought that you were thinking about the long-term. Before the battle was over, he was already thinking about how to negotiate terms.

Thinking about it again, negotiating conditions must not be done in the army, but the court must come forward.Whether we can talk about it here is another matter, but it is always right to make some preparations in advance and lay a solid foundation.

Furthermore, as a prince, he had promised the local people that he would seek some benevolence and righteousness for them.Even though he is not an emperor, and cannot be described in golden words, he is a prince, but some words cannot be regarded as farting.

Before withdrawing, Li Yan met the junior samurai who led the local Ichikui, Matsuda Kanemon, and some of the leaders who led the Ichikui under him.

"Prince Tang, are you going to leave now?"

"Yes, we will withdraw for the time being. But don't worry, I wrote a letter to the leading general and asked him to pass it on to your shogun. I will guarantee the lives of you people, and guarantee your innocence. I There are still some warriors in custody, if he doesn't listen, I will kill those warriors."

These few leaders have long looked down on life and death.

For things like Yikui, in most cases, the leader did not end well.Even if it is an organized petition rather than an armed riot, it must die.

These people know very well.

The rules of Dashun are completely different from the rules of the Wa country. The people who led the uprising on both sides are abiding by the rules of their respective countries.

The rule of the Celestial Dynasty is to be willing to cut the whole body, and dare to pull the emperor off his horse.Princes and generals, would you rather be kind?You can be the emperor, why can't I do it?
The rule of the Japanese country is that someone needs to take the lead as the leader before the people dare to move, and no matter whether it is the people or the leader, they know in their hearts that the leader will be sacrificed in the future.

These people who knew they were going to be sacrificed felt full of satisfaction in their hearts, as if they were "sanctified".The body perishes, but the dopamine in the brain is secreted rapidly. Before dying, I directly experience the feeling of a high-ranking nobleman in the spirit, because under the samurai system, the body cannot jump to a high-ranking nobleman.

The way of thinking of the two sides is different, so Matsuda Kanemon did not accept the letter, but said with a smile: "Prince of the Tang Dynasty, we are not afraid of death. I just hope that you can keep your promises and practice benevolence and righteousness. We already have The consciousness of death."

"As for those ordinary people who follow you, when they follow you, they should also be prepared to fail in the future."

Li Yan was noncommittal.

The officer on the side thought, this is not necessarily the case, you seem to be very willing to make decisions for others.Whether you die or not, we really don't care much.It's just that if too many local people die because of doing things for us, it may be inconvenient to switch them here in the future.

When he was about to persuade Li Yan, Li Yan took the initiative to say: "You all have the desire to die, but I have also said that you must do things with benevolence and righteousness. You have your awareness, and I have my benevolence and righteousness. You just Just hand them the letter."

The letter was handed over to Matsuda Kanyoumon, and he asked someone to post a notice in Yonago, indicating that the Celestial Dynasty would not forget those people who helped the Celestial Dynasty dig soil and transport food. For one common people, one captured warrior will be killed; for one thousand common people, a mountain city will be destroyed.

Then, overnight, all of Yonago's troops withdrew.

Except for the stove pit and camping traces left behind, it seemed that the Dashun Army had never been here at all.The timid people hid in the mountains, and those who believed in Dashun stayed at home to wait for the verdict of fate.

The leaders of Ichikui, such as Matsuda Kanemon, held their swords and letters, waiting for the army to come.

With the help of this letter, Matsuda Kanemon and others met Ota Ziqing.

After reading that letter, Ota Ziqing's expression was extremely ugly.Before the Dashun army withdrew, they posted notices everywhere, lest others would not know that they were pleading for mercy and threatening the local people.

Killing, the local people will know that Dashun is good, and the masters on the top of their heads are bad.

If he didn't kill him, the local people wouldn't be grateful to him, Ota Ziqing, but felt that Dashun's threat had played a role.

Ota Ziqing thought in his heart, he really is a person from the Celestial Dynasty, and his thoughts are so deep, it is really admirable.Making good use of public opinion is beyond our capabilities.

His face was extremely ugly, and he finally asked Matsuda Kanemon sarcastically, "Since you are a samurai, if you want to do great things, you must have the consciousness of death. Do you want to rely on other people's pleadings to save your life?"

"Your Excellency is wrong. I just want to fulfill the benevolence and righteousness of the Chinese prince, and I want to know whether I am wrong. If he can do all the benevolence and righteousness he said, then I did nothing wrong by leading people to help him attack Songjiang City." ;If he can't do what he said, then I'm wrong. At that time, I will make a full-hearted apology. Does your lord think that I sent this letter just to keep alive?"

Ota Ziqing, who was the most capable of one sentence, couldn't continue, so he ordered the leaders to be imprisoned first.But then he ordered his subordinates to save their lives.

Will Dashun really take revenge for Yikui's people?This Ota Ziqing is also not sure, but he knows, don't do things to the extreme.

Because...he felt that there was no hope of winning this war.

Within a day, the evacuation was clean; during the garrison period, Yu Minqiu committed no crimes, and even gave money for buying things.

Just these two points already made him feel hopeless.

And the greater sense of crisis intensified in the subsequent thinking.

The firefighting tactics seemed to be successful, but in fact they were useless.As far as these castles along the coast are concerned, with Songjiang City as a model, I am afraid that none of them can last until the fire brigade arrives.

This is like a fire that broke out in Edo all day long. After the fire brigade arrived, the fire burned everything that should be burned, but who knows where the fire will ignite next time?

According to the local people, this time the Dashun Army landed a very large number of people.

But apart from capturing the unimportant Songjiang City, there were no other actions. Instead, all the mobile forces in the central region were mobilized.

Don't fight a war, just take a boat and run away.

Is it because he coped well, let the Okayama domain march quickly, and supported him with all his strength, so the Dashun army had to retreat seeing that they were invincible?

Or... the Dashun army never thought of staying here for a long time?The purpose itself is to mobilize his troops?

If it is the former, Japan will lose, because practice has proved that the fire brigade tactics can only arrive after the fire is over.

As long as their warships are still there, these thousands of people can disturb the samurai in Japan day and night, and within a year, the shogunate will be dragged down.

If it's the latter...it's even more terrifying.

Dashun did such a big deceit, what was it for?

Where is the qualification for Dashun to make such a big move?
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Kohama.

The three warships were on the sea outside the bay, guarding against an extremely unlikely possibility: the Japanese had anticipated Dashun's move and hid a navy in a certain corner.Once the main force of the Dashun army's navy enters the bay, the navy will block the entrance of the bay, and relying on the terrain advantage, they will besiege it with arson ships, severely damaging the navy that Dashun has accumulated for nearly ten years...

Even though this possibility is very slim, under the suggestion of his staff, Li Yan ordered three warships to patrol the open sea.

The fleet arrived early in the morning. In the morning, some ships broke into the bay and measured the water depth and channel.

At noon, the general offensive officially began.

The main force of the fleet broke into the bay and aimed its naval guns at Xiaobin Town, which is just beside the sea.

This may be the most enjoyable shot fired by naval gunners since Dashun was established as a navy.

The special shape of Xiaobin Bay forms a natural breakwater. Even facing the Whale Sea, the entrance to the bay is only three or four miles wide, so there are no waves in autumn and winter.

This is really a place where you can use a bathtub as a boat.

Even when they were training in Weihai, the gunners had to endure the rhythmic swaying of the ship under the waves, relying on the flintlock, only the most experienced gunners could shoot accurately.

There are almost no waves here.

There is no fort on the shore, because both the fort and the main city need the permission of the shogunate to build it. Generally, the feudal lords will not ask for trouble and say that they want to build a city, so as to avoid the suspicion and dissatisfaction of the shogunate.

Xiaobin City has not changed since it was built 100 years ago. When the city was built 100 years ago, no foreign warships would come here.

So Dashun's warship almost came under Xiaobincheng's nose. In the eyes of those gunners who stared at the sampan training all day, Xiaobincheng was almost as big as Liugong Island.

It was originally planned to bombard until two o'clock in the afternoon, but in fact it was only one o'clock when the bombardment collapsed.

(End of this chapter)