Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 183 Fire at Japan!

The Ming Dynasty did not let the Sardinian prince wait too long, and prepared the [-] troops he had promised before in September.

After discussions among the courtiers, Lan Yu, who finally recommended himself, was entrusted with the important task. Zhu Xiongying ordered him to also escort Alfonso Frederic Amal Mode and lead the army to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

At this time, all the foreign envoys in Daying Tian Mansion had left. Even some of them had been waiting desperately. After learning the news, they could only sigh in vain.

Why wasn't he as lucky as the Sardinian prince?

It took less than half a month to prepare weapons, muskets, artillery, and dispatch warships.

In mid-September, Alfonso Fred Amal Mod finally got his wish and followed the Ming Dynasty's warship on his way back home.

Standing on the Ming Dynasty's huge treasure ship, looking at the countless Ming Dynasty warships all around, Alfonso Frederic Amar Mod could not suppress the excitement in his heart.

"Father, I have not let you down. I have brought reinforcements to the Kingdom of Sardinia!"

"With such powerful assistance from the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sardinia will definitely be able to overcome this difficulty!"

"It is even possible to unify the entire peninsula..."

Cao Wei's bewitchment was still very useful. The Sardinian prince had unknowingly become more and more eager to expand his territory.

the other side.

It is also separated from the Ming Dynasty by the ocean, but in the opposite direction from the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The situation in Japan gradually became more delicate.

Since the last time Kameyama led his troops to take the initiative and fought a battle with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's Northern Dynasty army using the Daiming Fire Guns bought at a high price, both sides were seriously injured and there has been no major action since then.

But as time went by, even the slightest friction between the two sides disappeared.

Zhu Di, who had been sending people to monitor the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the dark, noticed something unusual.

As several months passed, the smell of gunpowder between Kameyama and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became less and less intense. Instead, it became somewhat ambiguous and unreasonable.

When something went wrong, there must be a demon. Although Zhu Di's military strength could almost overthrow the Japanese at this time, he still sent people to investigate the reason.

The results returned by the secret agent really surprised Zhu Di and Dao Yan.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu didn't know why, but he actually wanted to have peace talks with Go Kameyama again. However, this time he did not put forward excessive conditions. Instead, he promised that after Japan is unified, he can give Go Kameyama a higher status, second only to him. Own.

When Hou Guishan first heard the news, he naturally disagreed.

Why was he inferior to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but not Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who was a head shorter than him?

Even if the strength of the Northern Dynasty is still much stronger than that of the Southern Dynasty, both dynasties have been severely weakened at this time, and it is unrealistic for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to completely defeat the Southern Dynasty.

Based on this, Go Kameyama rejected Ashikaga Yoshimitsu at that time.

However, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu once again delivered a message to Kameyama.

There is a silver mine in Ishimi Mountain!

This is the reason why the Ming army has always occupied Shijian Mountain and sent a large army to garrison it.

Although there was a big gap between the two dynasties, it was all a family feud, not a national hatred. How could they continue to kill each other now and let these Ming people take advantage in vain?

Go Kameyama did not know the authenticity of this news and did not reply to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but he began to hesitate in his heart, and the attitudes of both parties relaxed.

In the Shijianshan military camp.

After Zhu Di, Dao Yan, and Ma He listened to the spies, they would be lying if they said they were not surprised, but they were also expected.

The reason why they were surprised was because they did not expect Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to be so embarrassed that he went to Go Kameyama for peace talks.

It was expected... because Cao Wei went to the Northern Dynasties to deal with the [-] muskets. In order to win the trust of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, he told the story about the Iwamiyama Silver Mine.

In this way, what they were doing in Iwamiyama would no longer be kept a secret, and Go Kameyama would eventually find out sooner or later.

This is not a problem with Cao Wei's handling.

When he came to Japan with repeating muskets and powerful thunder cannons, he had the idea of ​​completely conquering and occupying Japan.

After Zhu Di saw the terrifying power of repeating muskets and divine thunder cannons, he also wanted to fight directly and push forward all the way.

But for the sake of safety, the power of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was still exhausted.

In other words, when Cao Wei came to Japan with repeating muskets and divine thunder cannons, he actually no longer cared about the situation in the northern and southern dynasties of Japan.

With the absolute suppression of weapons, in the eyes of Cao Wei and Zhu Di, the Japanese were no different from primitive monkeys who had lost their hair.

It is no longer important whether the secret of the silver mine in Iwami Mountain should be kept secret.

"Your Highness, after Guishan learns about the Shijianshan silver mine, I'm afraid he will come again for confirmation." Dao Yan said with a smile.

The benefits of a silver mine are too great for anyone to ignore. Even if this was said by Go Kameyama's bitter rival Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, he would definitely check it out whether he believed it or not.

Moreover, Zhu Di led his troops to garrison Iwamiyama for three years. Gogeyama must have had many suspicions in his mind. Now that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has added fuel to the fire, how could Gogeyama remain indifferent?

After Zhu Di heard this, he raised the corners of his mouth and snorted coldly,

"So what if I ask for proof? Can I still be afraid of him? If my father and Cao Wei hadn't put safety first, I would have pushed the artillery to bombard them!"

After staying in Japan for more than three years, Zhu Di had long wanted to return to Ming Dynasty for a visit.

Being in Japan now is no better than being in Peiping before. His wife and children are not around.

They haven't seen each other for such a long time, they should be doing fine...

More importantly, Zhu Yuanzhang is now old, and his health is getting worse every year.

Although Cao Wei said that Zhu Yuanzhang was in good health when he came last time, Zhu Di still missed his father after all.

If the Japanese could be pacified quickly, he would be able to go back and see Zhu Yuanzhang, his wife and children.

Zhu Di no longer wants to take the throne of the Ming Dynasty. It would be nice to conquer overseas lands, bring his wife and children with him, and be his own free prince.

It can be said that Zhu Di now wishes that Hou Guishan would come to Ishimiyama for verification!

It would be better if he could raise troops directly, so that he can use his powerful thunder cannons to push things through from south to north.

As the saying goes, if you never forget something, there will be repercussions.

On the night when the secret agent returned, the envoy sent by Houguishan rushed to the Iwamiyama military camp overnight.

Hou Guishan is still very smart. He knows the pros and cons of the silver mine. This time he did not come in person, but only sent people to die.

Facing the inquiries from the envoys sent by Hou Guishan, Zhu Di had nothing to say and directly ordered them to be chopped with a knife.

Now, Zhu Di is too lazy to pretend to maintain a superficial relationship with Hou Guishan. If he wants to fight, he will fight!     Ten days later,

On the last day, the subordinates who were sent out were not seen returning, so Houguishan knew that something unexpected had happened to them.

The order he gave to those subordinates at the beginning was that no matter what the results of the investigation were, they must return within the specified time.

Now that those subordinates have not returned, they clearly died in Zhu Di's hands!

This made Hou Guishan furious!

He smashed everything in the room to pieces, his eyes were red, and he yelled Zhu Di's name crazily!

"Zhu Di! Zhu Di! How dare you deceive me like this! Tease me like a fool!"

"You occupy my silver mine in Nanchao Ishimiyama, but you still ask for money from me, you--you deserve to be damned!"

When he thought that Zhu Di had blackmailed him for nearly two million silver, sold him a gun for half a million silver, and treated him like a clown, Hou Guishan was so angry that he lost his mind!

How much advantage did Zhu Di take in his hands? How many benefits have been gained? Those were originally supposed to be his back Guishan!

Stealing someone's wealth is like killing your parents. This hatred and hatred are irreconcilable!

"Ah! Zhu Di! I want you to die! I want you to be broken into pieces!"

Houguishan's angry roar echoed throughout the city that night!

the next day,

After not sleeping a wink all night, Goguiyama sent someone to Nagano to deliver a secret message.

He could promise Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to join forces to fight against Zhu Di, but he required Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to abide by his promise, and he must have a certain amount of military power in his hands.

As long as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can agree to these two points, he is willing to lead all the Southern Dynasty armies to submit to the Northern Dynasty and obey Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's orders.

The hatred for Zhu Di was too strong, and the feeling of being completely humiliated from the inside out drove him crazy!

In order to avenge Zhu Di, he was willing to become a subordinate of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu!

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was overjoyed when he received the news, and immediately wrote back a letter to confirm the details of the alliance between the two parties.

In fact, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also hated Ming people like Zhu Di with great hatred!

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is a very confident and even arrogant person. Such people generally have higher self-esteem than ordinary people.

Cao Wei originally sold him [-] firecrackers and asked him for [-] million silver.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu would not be able to accept the price of these fire guns, as long as these fire guns can work and help him defeat Kameyama.

But he never expected that these cunning Ming people would also sell Houguishan a hundred thousand fire guns, causing him to make wrong decisions and suffer heavy losses!

This feeling of being tricked and fooled was unacceptable to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the ruler of the Northern Dynasties! He wants revenge! So he sent a message to Houguishan.

As expected, Hou Guishan hated Zhu Di who deceived him even more than he did, and even surrendered to himself to avenge Zhu Di!

After five days,

The northern and southern dynasties held peace talks in front of Takayama Castle, and Kameyama led the entire army of the southern dynasty to surrender to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

And Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also said very "magnanimously" that the past things have passed, and now their only enemy is Zhu Di from the Ming Dynasty.

As long as they can recover Iwami Mountain and unify the Japanese kingdom, their good days will come!

After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu gave an impassioned speech, all the soldiers realized that the Iwami Mountain occupied by the Ming people was actually a silver mine!

As the most ordinary soldiers, it can be said that the silver mine in Iwami Mountain has nothing to do with them.

Even if Iwamiyama is recaptured, the interests of the silver mine will not fall into their hands.

However, most of the soldiers still had family and country concerns, and responded loudly to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Go Kameyama that they must drive the Ming people out of Japan and take back Iwami Mountain!

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu couldn't wait any longer. He spent two days integrating the army, boosting morale, and then led the army directly towards Iwami Mountain!

All the actions of the two dynasties of Japan were reported back by the spies deployed by Zhu Di.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu led his troops to attack, so Zhu Di naturally pulled out the Kamui Thunderbolt Cannon and set it up on a barren slope fifty miles outside the military camp.

Twenty days later, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Go Kameyama led their troops and slowly approached Iwamiyama.

There were still sixty or seventy miles away from the Ming army camp. From a distance, they saw the Ming army waiting for them on the desolate slope ahead.

The distance was once again reduced to five miles, and the two armies faced each other. Before the Japanese side could make any move, they heard several loud noises!

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

……

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Gogameyama could tell that it was the sound of artillery firing.

The Japanese country also had artillery, and they brought it with them this time in order to gather all the forces of both sides to completely defeat the Ming army in one battle and recover Iwami Mountain.

But what they couldn't understand was that there was still a distance of five or six miles between them and the Ming army, and the artillery couldn't hit it at all. Why did the Ming army still waste ammunition?

Their artillery can only hit a distance of two or three miles at most. Beyond this distance, even if the artillery hits people, the casualties it can cause are extremely limited, let alone a distance of five miles, it is impossible to hit people.

However, the next moment, they saw the artillery shells fired by the Ming army flying straight over from high in the sky!

Everyone was shocked that the Ming army's artillery could hit so far!

But what shocked them even more was what came next!

For solid iron ball shells, avoiding the path of the shell is the most effective way to reduce casualties.

While many Japanese soldiers were hurriedly evading, the shells had already hit the ground.

All this happened in an instant. Even if the Japanese soldiers wanted to avoid it, they had just made a move.

At this moment, the shell of the Divine Thunder Cannon had triggered the fuse and exploded in the crowd!

"Oh!"

"boom!"

The flames of the shell explosion instantly engulfed the surrounding Japanese soldiers. The huge shock wave carried the steel fragments after the shell explosion, hit the Japanese soldiers, and then flew them away.

"what--!"

In an instant, the Japanese soldiers were screaming!

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Gogameyama were at the rear of the army. Seeing what happened in front of them, they were horrified and speechless in shock!

What's this? Why are the Ming Dynasty's artillery so terrifyingly powerful?

With just one artillery salvo, their soldiers had already suffered more than a thousand casualties!

Before they could react, there were another series of explosions of artillery and shells!

Continuous shells exploded in the camp of Japanese soldiers, blasting out balls of flames that soared into the sky!

The soldiers who were close to the explosion range stopped moving immediately after being thrown to the ground. Most of them were still missing arms and could not retreat.

There were even soldiers whose whole bodies were wrapped in flames, running and shouting wildly, trying to get rid of the flames extinguishing their bodies, but all in vain. Under the burning of the flames, they gradually fell to the ground and stopped moving...

(End of this chapter)