Xinshun 1730

Chapter 423 Persuasion
Under the cover of the mast gunners, the combat sappers built sticks from simple timbers that could climb the walls.

Those soldiers who needed to climb the mast to shoot took off their shoes, as if they were on the deck, held the long wooden poles supported on the city wall, and rushed up the city wall like a monkey climbing the mast.

This is the biggest difference between the old city wall system and the bastion system. It is not a zigzag city wall and horse face, but a three-dimensional defensive structure.

If this is a bastion-type building, breaking through the outer wall is only the beginning of the battle.There are higher places inside, three-dimensional defenses.

Under the old city wall system, the gates of the city wall were the commanding heights, and once occupied, the inside would be defenseless.

The shooters who climbed the city wall quickly assembled, and after holding the city wall, they threw down the rope ladder used on the ship, and the follow-up troops climbed up from the ladder.

After throwing a few grenades downward, the warriors gathered near the Jianli Gate, who were about to open the gate and fight to the death, dispersed in a panic.

The heavy Jianli Gate was opened, and it only took less than two quarters of an hour from breaking through the Hayu Gate to opening the Jianli Gate.

What Jianli Gate faced was the Zichen Palace of the Wa Kingdom—although the Dashun Palace was the Forbidden City, not the Daming Palace, but no matter whether it was Dashun or North Korea, if anyone dared to name it the Zichen Palace, the Zhujiu Clan would not be able to escape.

In the Zichen Hall, Zhaoren sat in the main hall with a calm expression.

He thought well at the beginning, relying on the inner city to resist, let Toki Yorimoro gather troops in Nijo Castle.

However, the reality is cruel. Even without cannons, this Dashun army easily broke through this completely outdated defense system.

From the very beginning of the establishment of this army, the objects of offensive and defensive drills were bastion-style three-dimensional layered forts and forts. The imaginary enemies in Liu Yu's mind were the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, never Japan.

The explosion of the grenade was not far away, and the shouts of killing from Jianlimen could be heard clearly in the Zichen Hall. People around them all retreated, but it was meaningless.

Wu Fangrui believes that this kind of city wall is not only a defense, but also a prison.As long as they occupy the city wall, none of the people in the inner city can escape, so everyone is climbing the city, dividing into several teams to control the city wall and the city gate.

Zhaoren didn't know, but everyone around him, except Guan Bai, had disappeared.

He was sitting in the main hall with a calm face, holding a Japanese sword in his hand, and a Jianxiang was beside him.

To die, or not to die, that is the question.

After a seemingly long wait, the soldiers of the Dashun Army rushed into the Zichen Palace, raised their guns and aimed at Zhaoren and Yiyi Jianxiang who were sitting there.

They don't wear the dragon robes in the drama, and the soldiers haven't been to the Forbidden City. Naturally, they don't know that the two people in front of them are the King of Wa and Guan Bai, a senior official of the Wa Kingdom that they have heard in the drama.

"I am the emperor. Do any of you understand Japanese? Don't move forward, or I will kill myself."

When the interpreter heard it, he said repeatedly: "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! That's the Japanese king!"

He yelled twice, ran outside as if being chased by a mad dog, and shouted: "General! General! We have caught the Japanese king! We have caught the Japanese king!"

Wu Fangrui, who was standing on the city wall of Jianli Gate, also clenched his fists excitedly when he heard this, and punched hard at the wooden tower. His fist couldn't beat the wood, and his joints were covered with bruises, but he didn't feel it at all. pain.

In his heart, he only had thoughts like "I have made great achievements! I am going to be knighted" and so on. The hand holding the short gun even trembled a little, but he didn't notice it.

After taking a few deep breaths, he took out a cigarette produced in Weihai from his pocket, trembling, cut three matches on his clothes, lit them and took a few puffs until his head was dizzy and his eyes were dark, then he viciously He threw the cigarette on the ground and stomped on it twice.

"Here's an order to capture the city walls and guard the gates of the inner city, and no one will be spared. Interpreters are scattered around the gates, shouting inside, hiding in the house and not moving around, and beating them to death when they come out."

"The grenadiers put away the kerosene, don't make a mistake and burn this place down, we still have to stick to it and use it as a threat."

In addition to being excited, after smoking half a cigarette, he still regained the calmness that a staff officer should have and gave an order.

Standing on the city wall, Wu Fangrui looked back at the imperial garden of the Japanese, and thought that when he led people to raid the Junggar King City in Yili, he was not so excited.

At that time, the overall situation has been decided, and the main general will be Ying Sabo.

Now, I once again stood in the royal city of the enemy country, and I commanded all of this. This feeling is far from what it was back then.

After tidying up his clothes, he walked slowly down the city wall and came to the Zichen Palace. Looking at Zhaoren who was about to commit suicide at any time, he said calmly, "Why don't you come down sooner? Wouldn't it be beautiful to pay tribute to the Heavenly Dynasty and still guard the country? Holy Son of Heaven Merciful, I also know the political affairs of the Japanese state, the Shimadzu clan invaded Ryukyu, and the king of Zhongshan went to Edo, all the crimes of the shogunate, you are not guilty."

Zhaoren looked up at Wu Fangrui, and thought to himself that you want to catch me alive, so you dare not use violence, and I threaten you with death. Although you are victorious now, is it because you dare not use violence against me?

After the interpreter translated these words, Zhaoren said coldly: "You Chinese also have great etiquette. Don't you hear that the king died in Sheji? Is Shunguo really going to war because of Ryukyu? If it's just for As for the Ryukyu matter, would there be such a request as the founding of the country and trade? The ancients said that a man is not guilty, but a woman is guilty. What is said is Ryukyu, and what is done is gold and silver. Isn’t this the truth?”

Wu Fangrui thought in his heart that I don't have time to talk to you here, but I think the great achievement is to catch the living.If he is dead, although he can still catch a bunch of princes and clans, the credit is not good enough after all.Since you have the idea of ​​the king dying to the country, it is a bit difficult to handle.

After pondering for a while, Wu Fangrui decided to give it a try, and waved his hands to tell the soldiers to stand guard outside the door, leaving only a familiar interpreter behind.

After the soldiers withdrew, Wu Fangrui untied his weapon, leaned two steps forward and said, "At this time, I won't pass on the fifth person. If there are some things, I might as well just say it directly."

"Do you think that Wa Kingdom fought against the Celestial Dynasty?"

Seeing the soldiers retreating, Zhaoren didn't know what Wu Fangrui wanted to do, but seeing him take two steps forward, his expression became more vigilant.

But after Wu Fangrui asked this question, he stopped.

Without the threat of being captured by a surprise attack, Zhao Ren gradually calmed down.

After thinking for a while, he finally shook his head and said, "Invincible. The ancients said that you start with this, and you will end with this. Didn't the Celestial Dynasty ever think that if you humiliate the country with strength today, how will you know that no other country will humiliate China with strength tomorrow? "

"What's more, how can you be convinced to pay tribute to the country with profit and hypocrisy?"

Wu Fangrui laughed loudly and said: "The bastard lives for a long time, I can't live for that long. I just care that no one dares to insult me ​​when I am alive. As for the future, Han Zu Tang Zong still doesn't know the descendants, I am a small officer, Where do you manage so much?"

"When a king dies in the country, there are inherent rituals, but at this time, at that time. In this dynasty, Ying Suobo once said that there are small rituals in your country but no great righteousness. Looking at it now, it is indeed so."

"Nowadays, the army of the dynasty gathers in Xiaohama, and Japan has thousands of miles of sea, but there are not half a warship. If we fight again, there is no chance of winning. Peace talks sooner, and losses will be reduced sooner. It is not only for the people, but also for the vitality of the country."

"If you're really for the country, you shouldn't die. What's the use of dying? You're just a coward."

"I'm not going to capture you as a prisoner, but to ask you to go to the peace talks. Is it useful to capture you? Wouldn't the shogunate do what Yiyin Huoguang did and set up another one? Before the change of Ming Tumubao, there was no shogunate, It is still possible to establish a new king, so does Erguo not even know how to do this? If the Young Emperor is abolished, there will be no Emperor Xian?"

"Now the shogunate is in a difficult situation. If the shogunate proposes peace talks, the vassals on Kyushu Island must be dissatisfied. There must be something to say, and people's hearts are uneasy. The shogunate is constrained by this, so it can only bite the bullet and hold on. But if it continues, what's the point? What is the meaning? People have died and injured countless times, cities have been conquered one after another, and death at this time is not only not killing the country, but endangering the country.”

"If you commit suicide, wouldn't the shogunate be guilty of falling into the Japanese king? If the shogunate is in chaos, the Japanese kingdom will be in chaos again, and the people will suffer. This is not in line with the benevolence and justice of the heavenly dynasty."

"So, you only know the small rituals, but not the great righteousness. Small rituals, you should die; great righteousness, you should talk to the heavens, and use the prestige of the entire shogunate to keep your name from chaos."

That's what he said, but in fact Wu Fangrui has been under the subtle influence of Liu Yu, and his treatment of Japan is also inclined to the theory of the guardian of the land that Liu Yu said before.

As the saying goes, the ass determines the head.Now he does not support the idea of ​​some people in the military to "seal Japan".

His merits have been enough to be conferred a knighthood, even if he is actually conferred on Japan, he can only be conferred on the junior but not the senior, and it is impossible to confer five nobles on Japan.

Therefore, he supported Liu Yu to allow Japan to maintain the stability of the shogunate, but weakened its authority, so that the Celestial Dynasty could control Japan, forcing the Shogunate to compromise with the Celestial Empire in order to maintain stability, lest the Celestial Empire support the descendants of the Western Army.

The Celestial Dynasty needs a new Lifan policy.

Divide and conquer, divide and control, and facilitate trade.

Neither occupation nor control would cost too much and would involve too much energy from the imperial court.

His words are full of benevolence and his heart is full of business. When he set fires everywhere before, he didn't hesitate at all.

After dismissing the rest of the soldiers, Wu Fangrui wanted to persuade Zhaoren, after all, if he is dead, he is worth less than alive.

His thinking is very clear. Now everyone in Japan knows that they can't fight, but now the shogunate has to consider the subsequent impact of the peace talks.

In his heart, he supported Dashun's landing operations on Kyushu Island, so that the army could play a role, and he could also make great contributions, truly command a battle, and gain some experience.

But he actually understood in his heart that what the Privy Council did, and sent the navy to fight everywhere, but they didn't land on Kyushu Island, I'm afraid it wasn't taking off their pants and farting.

Obviously, the Privy Council did not want to overly weaken the power of the feudal clans in Kyushu Island.

Just like Dashun used the Junggar to frighten the Khalkha tribe, the vassals of Kyushu Island are needed to make the shogunate obey Dashun, and if they want to suppress foreign daimyos, they have to listen to Dashun.

If the Dashun Army had a good fight with the feudal clans of Kyushu Island, the losses of Dashun would not be too great after the military reform, but the losses of the feudal clans of Kyushu Island would be great.

In the end, the shogunate was still strong, but the biggest opposition force was swept away by Dashun. This easily reminded Wu Fangrui of the Anglo-French war in Europe that Liu Yu told them: the British helped the King of France to sweep away the feudal lords who had real power. On the contrary, France was the first to centralize power.

And to fight Kyushu Island, the shogunate can wait until the vassals can't stand it and ask for peace talks. The shogunate has the strongest military power and will not be criticized for hosting the peace talks.

Probably, maybe the Privy Council did not want to see this situation, so they made such a strategy, at least Wu Fangrui thought so.

If Zhaoren could negotiate with Dashun as the king of Wa, it would be regarded as a step down for the shogunate.

To use a very inappropriate metaphor, it is like the Shu Han beat Cao Wei violently, Cao Wei was obviously unable to beat, and the Shu Han captured Han Xiandi again, but only asked Liu Bei to be named "Hanzhong King", not to unify the north.

This is a win-win situation, the shogunate is also happy, and Dashun is also happy.

After talking thoroughly, Wu Fangrui said again: "Even if you want to die Sheji, you should die after the peace talks, so that it can be called dead Sheji. For example, in the year of Jiashen, the Youzong Dangchan of the former Ming Dynasty was located in my ancestors. The emperor made an oath to the world to drive out the Tartars together, and then he died before he could be called a dead country."

When Zhaoren heard this, he thought for a moment, then sneered, "You only talked about the year of Jiashen, but you forgot about Mingying's affairs. You served under Oala, opened the gates of the city, presented meritorious officials' wives and relatives to the chieftain, and erected the temple of Yexian in the capital? Tell me to follow suit?"

Wu Fangrui laughed and said, "Emperor Xian asked Prime Minister Cao to slay himself, did Prime Minister Cao listen? Who do you think you are? Don't say that you are called the city of various vassals, but now you are asked to call Ertiao City. Do you think they open the door? Do you know something? ,it's OK?"

"If you go, and the shogunate establishes a new king, you will die, and you will fight to the end; if there is no new king, you should not die. It shows that the shogunate wants you to negotiate peace, but it was embarrassed to take the initiative to take your initiative. Send it to the camp of the Celestial Dynasty."

"Isn't that the truth?"

(End of this chapter)