Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 327
"run!"

"Back to camp!"

When this kind of thought and voice appeared in the minds of the shogunate soldiers, suddenly there was the sound of rumbling horseshoes behind them!
If you look down from the sky at this moment, you can see the [-] cavalry of the Ming army cruising on both sides of the battlefield launching a charge!
The horses in the Eastern Army's Governor's Mansion are all selected military horses with a body height of more than five feet and a weight of about [-] catties.

When the Ming army, who was generally over five feet four inches tall, rode on a half-armored horse with a body height of more than five feet, armed with weapons and dressed in armor, they rushed forward, and the feeling of suffocation like a wall filled the air instantly.

"Cavalry blocking!"

Tokugawa Tadacho's pupils constricted, and he issued a military order in despair. Facing his military order, with the sound of the wooden whistle, the cavalry on both wings of the shogunate army could only bite the bullet and rushed forward.

It was supposed to be a collision between cavalry and cavalry, but as the distance between the two sides continued to approach, when the soldiers on horseback were not as high as the soldiers of the Ming army standing on the ground, this collision became a crushing situation.

"put!"

"Beep--"

"Clap clap clap-"

When the wooden whistle sounded, the cavalry in the front row of more than [-] cavalry raised their right hand guns and fired. More than a hundred bullets directly smashed the cavalry in thin armor on the charging route of less than [-] steps. .

The pony horses fell down in unison, and the Japanese pirates fell off their horses one by one, and were harvested by the intruding Ming army with short soldiers.

Like a hard-working farmer waving his sickle in autumn, successive shogunate cavalry fell.

In just one round of spear platooning, there were as many as a hundred shogunate cavalry who fell under the blunderbuss. At this time, the Ming army took advantage of their tall horses and height, brandished their pumpkin hammers, and slammed into the flank of the shogunate cavalry. !
The four-foot-three-inch Japanese pony was knocked to the ground by the five-foot-plus war horse. This gap is like the gap between the Tiger tank and the Japanese Douding tank during World War II.

After a charge, more than [-] shogunate cavalry were immediately submerged among the tall horses of the Ming army.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the so-called well-armed shogunate cavalry was completely finished, and the price paid by the Ming army was only minor injuries to twenty-five people.

"What a joke!!!"

Seeing that the cavalry he was proud of was dealt with by the cavalry of the Ming army, Tokugawa Iemitsu pulled out the samurai sword from his waist and slashed it on the nearby wood.

When the cavalry of the Ming army attacked as the final heavy hammer, the situation on the entire battlefield soon became clear.

The non-threatening artillery positions of the Ming army continued to urge the Yanshan five-jin cannon, and used flowering bullets to harvest the fleeing infantry of the shogunate.

Under this kind of bombardment method, what is the use of cavalry?I can't rush through it at all!
Tokugawa Tadaga, who was coerced to retreat, finally broke free from the rout, but was already drawn to the front of the camp.

Fortunately, although the shogunate soldiers fled, the [-] cavalry stopped the cavalry of the Ming army, causing the infantry to return to the camp and began to rely on the offensive to counterattack.

Tokugawa Tadaga, who had no choice but to witness the complete annihilation on horseback, could only struggle to raise the samurai sword in his hand: "For the glory of the shogunate! Onboard!"

"Boom!"

Just after shouting "Long live", I saw the Ming army's position was filled with smoke, and a stone bomb hit directly, hitting Tokugawa Tadacho in an instant, and blood and flesh flew everywhere...

Before the shogunate soldiers who relied on the fortifications to fight back with their iron cannons could react, an endless stream of stone bullets hit the camp and the city of Kyoto.

In the sound of "rumbling", [-] stone bombs continued to pour, which overwhelmed the shogunate infantry hiding in the camp. The casualty rate of nearly [-]% almost completely collapsed these people.

When the shelling ended and the Ming army's musketeers continued to march, and approached the camp and began to line up their guns, the shogunate soldiers in the camp fell down one after another.

The constantly falling robes caused some shogunate soldiers to collapse, dropped their weapons in an instant, and knelt on the ground, while more shogunate soldiers began to run towards the capital city behind.

The cavalry of the Ming army pursued them on the battlefield, and cavalry rode harvested crop after crop of shogunate infantry.

From beginning to end, the gates of Kyoto were not opened, and the shogunate soldiers on the battlefield were captured and killed.

The corpses of soldiers who died in battle dyed the entire battlefield red with blood...

When the battle outside the city was coming to an end, Lu Jianxing led the military scribes to write the last stroke of today's battle report as the presence of Yan Siqi's supervisor:
"At the end of the battle, our cavalry trampled on the Japanese formations with four hooves, and harvested the Japanese heads with firecrackers..."

On the walls of the capital city, Tokugawa Ieko's face was pale, the camp outside the city and the entire army of [-] shogunate soldiers were wiped out, and it took less than half an hour from the beginning to the end.

In half an hour, the Ming army could achieve the result of completely annihilating the enemy with three thousand against seven thousand, which made him have to recognize the reality.

It's just that it was too late to recognize the reality at this time. With the loss of the fortress outside the city, the artillery of the Ming army moved forward for a mile, and then launched a fierce shelling on the capital city.

"Fixed shot reloading, target Kyoto city, altitude [-], distance [-] paces, prepare... release!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The sound of dense artillery was heard, and the sound of "rumbling" stone bullets hitting the city head continued in an endless stream.

Although there are still more than [-] shogunate soldiers in the capital city, everyone knows that under the artillery of the Ming army, the fall of the capital city is only a matter of time.

The Ming army bombarded from day to night, from night to day, sixteen rounds of shelling every hour made the shogunate soldiers in the city completely sleepless.

On the third day of the bombardment, gaps appeared in the city walls of Kyoto, and a large pile of stones that built the walls collapsed. Tokugawa Iemitsu could only desperately ask people to repair this.

Six hundred six-pound guns appeared on one battlefield at the same time, which was an intensity of war that was hardly seen in the Thirty Years War in Europe.

Faced with such firepower, as time passed, until the first day of February, the city wall of Kyoto completely collapsed with many gaps, and more than [-] shogunate soldiers in the city were killed.

"All troops charge!"

"Boom boom boom——"

With more than ten gaps in the city wall, Yan Siqi decisively issued the military order for the whole army to charge.

The beating of drums continued, and the Ming army chanted the slogan "Catch Hou Shuiwei alive" and rushed towards the capital city.

The moat had already been cut off by the Ming army, and the sun exposure for more than half a month made the entire river dry and hard.

Squads of Ming troops rushed into the capital city, hacking and killing the lowly shogunate soldiers who were trying to block the gap.

The [-] shogunate soldiers retreated steadily under the offensive of the tens of thousands of Ming troops, and could only try to use iron cannons to block the Ming army on the streets of Kyoto.

They were divided into a classic horizontal line, a total of thirty rows, each with about a hundred people.

The first row held the iron cannon in their hands, first poured a little gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then poured some gunpowder into the muzzle of the gun.

Then the projectile was inserted, and the trigger was pressed, and the trigger drove the connecting rod holding the match, the smoldering match slowly lowered, and the medicine primer in the medicine pool was ignited like a chicken pecking at rice.

"boom……"

Unlike the crisp gunshots of the Ming army, the muskets used by the shogunate were slightly dull.

Although this kind of arquebus introduced from the West is stronger than the bird gun, it is also reflected in the places where it is not easy to explode. Its power and range are still not as good as the rifles of the Ming army, and the rate of fire is far inferior.

But after all, the Ming army had just entered the main road section, and was caught off guard for a while, so thirty or fifty people fell in the direction of the Ming army!

"General Onboard!!!"

Seeing his own iron cannons knocking down thirty or fifty people from the Ming army, Date Masamune, who organized the street fighting, shouted excitedly, and the shogunate iron cannon troops, who were living a good life, continued to load ammunition like chicken blood .

"Why are they so happy?" Seeing that there were only [-] to [-] people down on his side, and because of the distance of more than [-] steps, many of them were still able to move, so Yan Siqi was confused by the brain circuit of this group of pirates.

The shogunate's Iron Cannon Ashgaru has achieved certain results, but compared to Daming's results of knocking down hundreds of people each time, it seems a bit unbearable.

If war can be simplified into a mathematical problem, then anyone can get the answer to this war through the current casualty exchange ratio, that is, the shogunate will undoubtedly lose.

When the riflemen of the Ming army arrived at the main street, they began to form six horizontal teams under the command of Yan Siqi, each with a hundred people in a row.

"put!"

"Boom...boom...boom—"

The continuous platoons of the Ming army began to fight back, and the crops of the shogunate iron cannon ashigaru were harvested by the rifles. Unlike the shogunate iron cannon ashigaru who stood still, the platoon of the Ming army was advancing almost every second.

As the two sides got closer and closer, every time the Ming army fired their guns, they could take away the lives of hundreds of iron cannon ashigaru.

This scene was seen by the other generals of the shogunate. They knew it well, and naturally they would no longer put the hope of victory on Tie Pao Ashigaru, and they blew the horn of the general attack.

"Onboard!"

When the Ming army's platoon guns were less than twenty steps away from the iron cannon, some shogunate soldiers hiding on the top of the house began to shout long live and jumped down, trying to cause damage to the Ming army's riflemen.

At the same time, the thousands of spears hiding behind the iron gunner also launched a charge!

Their task is very simple, that is to rush into the rifle formation of the Ming army and disrupt their formation. It is best to completely turn the battle into hand-to-hand combat and defeat the riflemen on the opposite side.

There is no doubt that their task is difficult, but at this moment they have no way out.

"Onboard! Onboard!"

Hearing the voices of the shogunate soldiers roaring in unison, Yan Siqi knew in his heart that the shogunate's final blow was coming.

It's a pity that everyone is equal in front of rifles...

"put!"

"Clap clap-"

Contrary to what Date Masamune thought, when the shogunate soldiers on the roof jumped off the Ming army's riflemen, they were hacked to death by the Ming army without even splashing a single splash.

Riflemen are not tigers that have lost their teeth. Before they became riflemen, they were all elites who could fight Jianlu for a day on the Liaodong battlefield.

Facing the four-foot-five-inch shogunate soldiers, they seemed like adults in kindergarten, and they beat and killed the shogunate soldiers who fell into the formation one by one.

This group of shogunate soldiers did not cause any damage to the formation of the Ming army, but instead approached and sent a group of heads.

The riflemen in the front row took over the rifles unaffected and started shooting. The shogun who thought that he could win by being close to the riflemen of the Ming army was directly smashed by the platoon.

After row after row of shogunate soldiers fell, Date Masamune could only grab the general next to him and shout:
"The whole army retreats from the north gate, and inform the emperor and the general to retreat!"

The city of Kyoto could no longer be defended. After seeing the Ming army's offensive and defensive rifle formations, Date Masamune clearly had self-awareness.

Thirty thousand shogunate soldiers would never be able to defend the city of Kyoto. Only by retreating could the shogunate retain its troops.

If all these [-] people died in the battle in Kyoto City, then Edo would be in jeopardy.

Therefore, he gave the military order to retreat without hesitation, and led the shogunate to break through to the north gate.

After breaking through the north gate, there are mountainous areas. It is absolutely impossible for the Ming army who did not understand the terrain to pursue it in depth. Then the shogunate soldiers could successfully withdraw to Gifu and establish a second line of defense in Gifu.

But the premise is that they can escape from the capital...

For the Ming army, the Japanese pirates were five taels of silver for walking. When they saw the Japanese pirates retreating, they rushed up to chase and kill them as soon as their brains became hot.

Not only them, but even Yan Siqi pulled out his Yanling Saber and prepared to shout.

But before he shouted, Lu Jianxing appeared to stop him, and said: "You can stop chasing."

"Why?" Yan Siqi asked in confusion, while Lu Jianxing frowned and said:
"His Highness's military order is to let you fight slowly and carefully. You have fought too rough this battle. If you wipe out the elite of the shogunate in one battle, Tokugawa Iemitsu will have to surrender. That is not what His Highness wants to see. "

"I..." Yan Siqi wanted to know exactly how to "beat slowly and carefully", but felt that it was inappropriate to ask directly, so he could only turn his head and say to Zheng Zhilong:
"The whole army stops chasing!"

"Yes……"

Unwillingly, the two ordered the whole army to stop chasing, and when Lu Jianxing saw this, he also turned his head and said to Qianhu who was following him:

"Send the good news to His Highness, saying that our army has conquered all the territory south of the capital city, and Iwami Silver Mine is already in hand. May I ask His Highness what to do next."

"Yes!" Jin Yiwei Qianhu bowed in response, and then according to Lu Jianxing's words, sent the news back to the country.

When the good news came to Zhu Youjian, it was already the fourth day of March in the eighth year of Tianqi, and he couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction when he got the good news:
"Iwami Silver Mine has been taken!"

"Congratulations, Your Highness..." Hearing the good news, Lu Wenzhao, who was standing in the study of Prince Qi's Mansion, couldn't help congratulating him, while Zhu Youjian said with a light smile:
"Send skilled craftsmen from the gunpowder bureau, cement plant, and iron smelting plant to the Iwami area, and then tell Lu Jianxing to order Yan Siqi to recruit men, women, and children to mine the Iwami silver mine with all my strength."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youjian couldn't hide his joy.

Iwami Silver Mine is also known as Iwami Silver Mine. Historically, this place has been mined for [-] years since [-] before the silver was mined.

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the silver output here accounted for one-third of the world's total silver output, making it the largest silver supplier in Asia.

From the [-]th year of Wanli to the current [-]th year of Apocalypse, more than [-] million taels of silver were produced here stably every year. In the [-] years from the [-]rd year of Jiajing to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the total output was nearly hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

In fact, in terms of silver exports, the amount of silver exported from Japan to Ming Dynasty was three to ten times more than the amount of American silver shipped by Europeans from America.

During the period from the [-]th year of Wanli to the [-]th year of Chongzhen, the total amount of silver that flowed into the Ming Dynasty was about [-] million taels, with an average of more than [-] million taels per year, of which nearly [-] million taels flowed from Japan. Ming dynasty.

What is the significance of winning the Iwami Silver Mine? Needless to say, with free labor, Daming's financial income can be increased by more than [-] million taels by virtue of the Iwami Silver Mine.

If a gunpowder sub-bureau is built in the Iwami area, then this output may be able to increase a lot.

These several million taels of silver will become an important support for Daming's currency transformation.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian calculated an account. If the currency transformation is carried out according to the method of minting coins, then with the annual silver inflow of nearly five million taels from Ishijian and Shibosi, plus the cash income of the imperial court, then Daming can continuously carry out currency innovation at a rate of [-] million taels per year.

The circulation of silver in the Ming Dynasty is at most a billion taels, and at a rate of [-] million taels per year, the currency can be fully reformed in at most sixty years.

However, this is only in theory, because in practice this speed will be even faster.

Zhu You had questioned Song Yingxing and the others from the Military Armament Academy. Although the current steam engine has not completely solved the transmission problem, it has already exerted a force of hundreds of catties.

There is absolutely no problem if it is simply used to print silver coins. As long as the transmission problem is solved, Daming can mass-produce exquisite silver coins and silver and copper coins.

After raising the upper limit threshold for making counterfeit money, no matter how powerful the private counterfeit money dealers are, they will not be able to manufacture counterfeit money in batches unless they get out the steam engine.

If it can be done, Zhu Youjian will not only not be angry, but will be happy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also relaxed a little, and said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Is there any news about Jianlu from Guo Sangdai?"

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's question, Lu Wenzhao said quickly:

"Guo Sangdai sent people to contact Huang Taiji in Shangjingcheng last month. According to them, there are no less than [-] mu of land around Shangjingcheng, and there are tens of thousands of Jurchens working and tens of thousands of Han people reclaiming new fields. .”

"Huang Taiji hopes that Guo Sangdai will surrender to the Kingdom of Jin, while Guo Sangdai would like to ask Your Highness what you mean."

"Surrender is fine, but Huang Taiji needs to allocate food to them." Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes.

It is true that Huang Taiji was a little surprised that he had reclaimed [-] mu of land, but Zhu Youjian would not believe that [-] mu of land could satisfy the current Jianlu.

The grain yield per mu in Liaodong has dropped by [-]%, so Shangjing City, which is further north than Liaodong, may have dropped by more than [-]%.

With the same crops, [-] mu of land can produce at most [-]% of the output per mu in the customs.

Last year, the yield per mu in the Great Wall was one stone, while the yield per mu in Yidonghe City in the north was no more than eight buckets.

It is only four hundred miles from Shenyang to Yidonghe City, and the yield per mu has been reduced to such a ghostly state. Then the yield per mu in Shangjing City may not even have seven buckets.

The [-] mu of land can produce at most [-] shi. Counting other places, the total output of Jianlu is less than [-] shi.

Zhu Youjian has heard about the tragic situation of the Han people in Xingjing City, so no matter how much Huang Taiji treats them preferentially when they go to the capital, the number of Han people who go to the capital will certainly not be much.

The population of Jianlu should be more than [-], [-], and the yield per mu is less than [-] shi...

After comparing the data, Zhu Youjian snorted slightly.

If one person is less than two stones, can a person survive?Of course it is possible, but those who survived are no different from the hungry.

What's more, the temperature of the small glaciers has cooled, and the reduction in grain production has not yet reached its peak.

The speed at which Jianlu reclaimed the fields was not as fast as the reduction in grain production.

Without black wheat, relying solely on sorghum and cold-resistant rice, when the tens of thousands of Han people used as consumables are exhausted, Jianlu can only use Mongolians and his own people as consumables.

However, there is still a problem, that is, among the Han people who survived, many of them are the family members of the Han camp soldiers among the Jianlu.

Will these Han camp soldiers watch Huang Taiji and Nurhachi torture their family members to death?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian had the idea of ​​instigating rebellion in his heart, and he had a good candidate.

"Let Guo Sangdai's people contact Liu Aita and see if they can instigate Liu Aita."

Zhu Youjian spoke, but Lu Wenzhao was taken aback when he heard the words:
"Your Highness, that Liu Aita is the son-in-law of this old slave..."

"So what about the son-in-law? If he loses the hearts of the soldiers in the Han camp, can he still be the son-in-law of the Han camp?"

Zhu Youjian knew people like Liu Aita too well. To them, what was a woman?Power is the ultimate pursuit.

If he lost the support of the Han camp soldiers, or if the Han camp soldiers rebelled directly, then it was a certainty that he would be implicated to death.

In this situation, Liu Aita will only make the right choice as in history...

"Yes..." Seeing what Zhu Youjian said, Lu Wenzhao had no choice but to send someone the news with the mood of giving it a try.

As for Zhu Youjian, he picked up the memorials on the table and frowned at the memorials from the local county government requesting money and food.

Many of these memorials from the county government are from Yanshan students, and their request is really insufficient money and food?

Of course not...

After the imperial court assumed the salaries of soldiers and horses, yamen servants, and scribes, the local government did not need to bear the expenses of these people, and the pressure was naturally much less.

What the county government needs to bear is only basic maintenance, as well as food and horse supplies for government officials, servants, and scribes.

So isn't the [-]% of the money and food that the imperial court intercepted for the local area not enough?

The county that Zhu Youjian has seen and has the least interception also has two hundred taels of interception, and the interception of two hundred taels is simply used for food and horse feed, which is already enough for everyone in the place to have four dishes and one soup.

Now they go to the public notice to say that the intercepted silver and grain are not enough, then they are not stupid, but broken...

Although he had made enough preparations, the Yanshan students had only been released for three years, but many corrupt people had already been brewed. This speed caught Zhu Youjian a little off guard.

He had thought that the officials of Yanshan students would be corrupted after they were transferred, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

It can only be said that Daming's officialdom has been corrupted to such an extent that it is difficult for anyone who falls into it to resist.

Of course he can clean up these people, but not now...

Although these Yanshan officials are corrupt, at least they can do things. To deal with them, the most corrupt old-school officials must be dealt with first.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was just about to free up his hands to deal with the memorial, but he didn't want the sound of hurried footsteps to sound outside the door.

After a few seconds, Lu Wenzhao walked quickly into the room, half kneeling and bowing with livid face, and said:
"Your Highness, a civil uprising broke out in Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province. The county resident Liu Si raised his banner to rebel, gathered a crowd to attack the county government, killed Han Chao, the county magistrate, and looted the treasury..."

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