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Kawasaki Masamitsu saw the Qing army pulling out twenty red cannons and woke up completely.

Although there are no cannons here in Zhouqi Hall, there are some in Fushan City (general cannons and flange machines). He has gone to observe them countless times and is well aware of the power of such cannons.

"Quick! Hide!"

Kawasaki Masamitsu screamed in horror and ran to the gate tower of the city to hide.

Although it was the first time for most of Kawasaki's tribe to see the Red Yi Cannon, they also recognized the cannon.

There are five artillery pieces on the city wall of Zhouqi Palace, but four of them are bowl-mouth cannons. Only one is similar to the general cannon of the Ming Dynasty more than a hundred years ago, and its caliber is not much larger than the bowl-mouth cannon.

Knowing the power of the artillery, the Ashigaru hid behind the walls.

Boom boom boom...

A series of cannon fire sounded, and iron bullets hit the city wall with a terrifying whistling sound.

Fortresses in Kaminokuni such as Sukikan and Katsuyamakan had no artillery because their previous enemies were mainly Ezo and pirates, so the walls were built quite high but not thick.

For example, the city wall of Zhou Qiguan is more than two feet high, but only one step wide (about two meters).

Moreover, the city walls are still made of rammed earth, rather than the brick-covered rammed earth walls that are currently popular in the East.

When the iron bullet was hit, the lumps of earth immediately fell down in chunks.

The few that hit the wall stacks immediately caused the entire wall stacks to explode.

For a moment, the entire city was trembling.

Although there were not many casualties among the dozens of Ashigaru, they were all yelling and panicking.

Some Ashigaru even forgot about military law and ran directly to the city wall.

Even Kawasaki Masamitsu was so frightened that he shivered - this was the first time he had encountered such fierce bombardment.

"Siege!"

After three rounds of bombardment, Geng Jimao gave an order, and more than 800 soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army immediately rushed to Zhouqi Walled City carrying flying bridges and ladders.

Everyone was extremely excited.

They knew very well that if the Eight Banners Manchurian and Mongolian men were not in bad condition just after disembarking from the ship, such a city that could be easily captured would never have been their turn.

According to the practice of the Qing army and the previous promise of the regent, they could loot the city after capturing it.

There are no requirements on whether to kill civilians or not. Just don’t kill too many and you’ll be fine.

The prince said that there are not many Japanese people on Ezo Island, so we should try to keep them as slaves to farm, fish and mine for everyone.

I heard that the Japanese are much more hardworking and hardworking than the Koreans.

Not to mention that Kawasaki Masamitsu and others were almost frightened by the bombardment. Even if they were not, a few dozen people would be unable to withstand the attack of more than 800 Eight Banners Han troops.

In fact, when the Eight Banners Han troops rushed to the city wall, they encountered little resistance and easily scaled the city wall.

Zhang Yong led more than a dozen of his men to climb the city wall, and quickly broke through and entered the walled city through the stairs.

Seeing the Japanese running in panic in the city, Zhang Yong raised his knife and shouted excitedly: "Robbing money, grabbing food, and robbing women!"

The soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army who entered the walled city one after another shouted excitedly and rushed towards the houses with obvious He nationality characteristics.

Soon, the entire city was filled with cries.

In this way, Zhouqi Pavilion was captured by the Qing army effortlessly.

It is a pity that Geng Jimao and his Eight Banners Han army had only been in the walled city for less than half an hour when Suksaha came over with hundreds of Eight Banners Manchurians.

However, the walled city was not big to begin with, and basically everything that could be robbed at this time was taken away by Geng Jimao's men, including Kawasaki Masamitsu's mansion.

Although Suk Saha saw many Japanese men dead in the city and felt that the Qing Dynasty's property had been damaged and looked ugly, he could not say anything to Geng Jimao. One story is that Geng Jimao is the son of Geng Zhongming, king of Huaishun, and he is the young prince.

Secondly, at present, the Qing Dynasty Navy is still dominated by the Han army mixed with many Koreans. Whether it is to complete the Great Migration of Manchuria or for future naval battles, it relies heavily on the Eight Banners Han Army.

Therefore, when he saw Geng Jimao, Suksaha just gave a cold order, "My young prince, tell your men to stop making trouble, gather all the Japanese, and take good care of them."

"Understood." Geng Jimao responded casually, and then took his servants to carry out the order.

Today's Qing Dynasty is not the Qing Dynasty that captured the city of Beijing and prepared to compete in the Central Plains, but the Qing Dynasty that was broken up by the Yi army and went into exile overseas.

His father, Geng Zhongming, commanded most of the troops of the Qing Dynasty Navy and was now very popular. Naturally, he, Geng Jimao, had the ability to be arrogant...
Nowadays, the Qing army has not yet fallen, and there are no conditions for it to fall. In addition, facing the threat of life and death, the efficiency of fighting and doing things is quite high.

On the day they captured Suqikan, Suksaha and Geng Jimao divided their forces and captured Katsuyamakan more than ten miles away, thus occupying this natural harbor on the west coast of the Ezochi Toshima Peninsula.

Subsequently, the Qing Dynasty relied on this place to continuously transport Eight Banners soldiers and their families.

Under normal circumstances, Fukuyama Castle (the seat of the lord of Matsumae Domain) only communicates with Katsuyamakan and Suqikan once or twice a month. If nothing else happens, it will take at least ten and a half days to learn that Suqikan and Katsuyamakan have been transferred. The Qing army captured it.

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Nanjing, snowflakes are falling.

But the time came to December of the eighth year of Qianyuan.

Since the Ei army captured the entire Gangwon Province in September, the Qing army relied on the high mountains and ridges of Hamgyeong Province and the various dangerous passes built over the past few years to engage in multiple resistance and semi-guerrilla warfare with the Ei army.

Liu Sheng and the Military Academy instructed the frontline troops to advance steadily, so the progress of the subsequent war slowed down.

It was not until November that Damei captured Xianxing City.

Afterwards, the progress of the war became even slower.

It was not until December that the South Hamgyong Province was captured.

Coupled with Liu Sheng's intention to let Dorgon and others cross the sea to Japan, the war stopped halfway and was ready to wait until late spring next year to start again.

Tianxin Palace.

Liu Sheng was looking through the pieces of Qing intelligence compiled by the Secretariat.

Whether it is the northward migration team led by Hauge or the cross-sea migration team led by Dorgon, Xunfengwei has deployed spies, and there are many of them.

Therefore, Liu Sheng knew something about the situation of these two migration teams in the Qing Dynasty.

It took Hauge more than three months to finally reach the Mobei Grassland before the harsh winter arrived.

However, more than 10,000 slaves and more than 1,000 tribesmen died along the way.

And, for them, the real test has just begun - the Mobei winter of the Little Ice Age was not so easy to survive, especially without a stable territory.

Liu Sheng estimated that after the severe winter passed, Hauge's team would lose a lot of population.

Whether we can successfully reach the Tianshan area next year is a question.

The situation on Dorgon's side is much better.

Because Dorgon had already planned to cross the sea and establish a foothold in Ezo, he was well prepared. Coupled with Liu Sheng's deliberate connivance, he migrated five to six million people to Ezo in two or three months.

Moreover, there are still 100,000 or 200,000 people in Vladivostok, all of whom were later evacuated from Hamgyong Province and Laolinzi.

The most important thing is that before the Tokugawa shogunate could react, the Qing army attacked Fukuyama Castle, Hakodate and many other Matsumae-bo's cities in Ezo, and occupied almost all of Matsumae's territory in Ezo!
Moreover, due to the demand for population, the Qing army did not massacre civilians as they did when they conquered the Central Plains and went to the south of the Yangtze River in history. Instead, they tried to keep young men and women as slaves.

However, it is still unknown whether Dorgon can lead the hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers and civilians who crossed east to establish a foothold in Ezo.

Although Matsumaebo belonged to a foreign feudal lord, he could be regarded as a loyal younger brother of the Tokugawa Shogunate and a member of the Japanese nation.

Not surprisingly, when the Tokugawa shogunate learned that the Qing army had occupied Ezo Island, they would definitely send troops to attack it. (End of chapter)