Short video spoiler history: The beginning of modern warfare

Chapter 171 Stealing a Home
New Year’s Eve, Fengxian County, Songjiang Prefecture.

All the shops on the street were already half closed, because the Chinese New Year was a big event, and no matter whether they lived nearby or far away, they all started to buy New Year goods early. From around the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 29th day of the lunar year, the whole street was crowded with people every day, and there was no telling how many pairs of shoes were squeezed out.

On New Year's Eve, people basically clean the house and kill chickens and ducks to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. Children wash themselves clean early in the morning and wait for the New Year, drink Tusu wine, pay New Year's greetings to their parents, grandparents, and receive red envelopes.

Taking advantage of the bright sunshine, many shops have started to sweep, wipe windows, tables and chairs, and clear cobwebs. There are also men on the roof helping to repair tiles, and under the eaves, servants are holding tall ladders with big red lanterns hung on the ladders.

In a family with many brothers and sisters, they often play rock-paper-scissors to decide who will sit on the top of the pyramid.

Restaurants, teahouses, etc. all took the time to tidy up their clutter and throw away old and expired ingredients.

The streets were still crowded with people, especially in front of the various jugglery stalls, where there were martial artists performing arts like breaking stones with their chests, people teasing monkeys and snakes, people taking copper coins out of oil, as well as lanterns built with government funds, and a stage that had already been set up with a troupe of actors busying about.

There were also women who couldn't stand the children's noise and brought their children to join in the fun. However, they were all unable to move when they saw the stalls making candy figures.

"Mom, I can't walk anymore." A little girl with a bun on her head glanced at the "running horse" candy figurine on the stall with her big round eyes. She tried hard to pretend not to look at the candy figurine stall, but her stomach started to rumble.

The little girl and her mother are the wife and daughter of Niu Wuliu, the head of Niujia Village.

Zhang was also sweating from the squeeze. As a woman, she had to take Spring Festival couplets, door god stickers, incense, paper money, customized clothes for the family's children, and also had to guard against thieves and lechers. So she was too tired to move at this time. She tried hard to squeeze towards the small stall and make way for the queues of people behind her who were asking "Excuse me" and "Are you going to leave or not?"

The master who made the candy figure smiled and said, "Madam, please make a candy figure for me!"

"Come on." Zhang nodded.

"Yeah." The little girl jumped up on the spot, and for fear that the old man couldn't hear her, she shouted loudly, "I want a rabbit."

Finally, he added: "It must be made fresh!"

"Okay!" The old master's ears and hands were very clever. He agreed with his mouth, but his hands did not stop, pulling out shapeless line segments with sugar threads. As he added stroke after stroke, he slowly turned a bunch of meaningless line segments into a long-eared rabbit.

The city of Jinling was decorated with lights and colors everywhere.

It was just after five in the afternoon, and many families and businesses began to light lanterns in front of their doors. These lanterns spread slowly from one to two, then to three, and finally spread out, as it usually gets dark early in winter.

Slowly, this ancient city located on the Qinhuai River slowly unveiled its elegant and luxurious veil.

The imperial palace also set up many stages in the outer city, erected lanterns, and organized many talent shows.

People in the city, old and young, talented young men, and beautiful young ladies, are all in high spirits, coming from all over the city with smiles on their faces, beating drums and gongs, dancing dragons and phoenixes along the way without any reservations. Surrounded by a sea of ​​lights in the city, surrounded by their loved ones, the biting cold wind becomes gentle when it comes to this festival.

Gradually, activities such as poetry gatherings by talented scholars, word puzzles at lantern festivals, performances by opera troupes, lighting of lanterns, and touring the Qinhuai River have all begun, and everyone has enjoyed their time.

Many merchants from west of the Western Regions, such as Florence and Marseille, were all shocked and stunned. It turned out that Marco Polo was not lying!
In the palace, Empress Ma, the second, third, fourth and fifth princes, Lady Xie of the Duke of Wei's mansion, Xu Huizu, Xu Miaoyun and others were busy for an entire afternoon and prepared a sumptuous dinner to celebrate the New Year together.

Mrs. Xie and her children were invited to the palace to accompany the Empress and the princes to keep vigil and get rid of the old. She and Empress Ma were old acquaintances. That year, Empress Ma helped her to get married, and His Majesty helped her to marry a good man. She hadn't seen the Empress for some time, so the two of them couldn't stop talking.

In contrast to the prosperity and peace in Jinling City, all prefectures and counties along the southeast coast have implemented a curfew policy!
Curfew on New Year’s Eve!

What a joke!
As soon as the news came out, the whole city was in an uproar. From the gentry and nobles to the peddlers and hawkers, everyone was filled with righteous indignation. This meant that all the preparations for celebration that everyone had made in the past few days had come to naught, so they surrounded the county government office to demand an explanation.
On the dark sea, more than twenty treasure ships appeared faintly from the biting cold wind.

On the deck, Imagawa Sadayo and other generals were conducting the final mobilization. They had commanded troops for a long time and knew people's hearts. With just a few words, they reversed right and wrong, causing the samurai to be in an uproar: "Brothers, the culprit who harmed us is the Ming Emperor Zhu Chongba!"

"It was he who drove away our envoys and tore apart the friendship between our two countries. It was he who not only confiscated our compatriots' goods, but also wantonly drove away and killed our brothers and sisters. It was also he who blocked the sea and insulted and killed our compatriots at will!"

"Waging war on New Year's Eve, a day of family reunion, and preventing us from reuniting with our families is simply too much!"

"Do we agree to it?"

"No!"

"Should we fight back?"

"want!"

"Okay, follow me now, we will fight our way to the shore, break into the palace, and kill them all!"

"Go into the palace and kill them all!"

Imagawa Sadayo nodded secretly, and there was a pre-arranged agent hiding in the crowd, so the morale of the soldiers was completely ignited. Of course, his target was not Jinling, he was just bad, not stupid. Jinling City was heavily guarded, and with their team of less than 4,000 people, they would never dare to go to Jinling unless they were tired of living.

As for the other team of 5,000 people, they headed further south.

The target landing site was Niujia Village, Fengxian County, Songjiang Prefecture.

The three villages of Niu, Hu and Zhao are adjacent to each other. Among them, Niujia Village has the largest area and is close to the sea.

So the heads of the three villages decided to invite a troupe of actors to liven up the New Year. At that time, the play being performed on the stage was "The Story of the Precious Sword", which was Lin Chong's personal story in "Water Margin". The play was about Lin Chong being forced into a desperate situation and going to Liangshan on a snowy night, but no one noticed the crisis.

Except for one rider who did not dare to stay and quickly reported the news after seeing the eerie outline of the fleet, the others were immersed in the festival celebration.

Imagawa Sadayor confirmed that it was correct and he had seen the lights of thousands of houses on the shore. There was no need to hide his figure, so he ordered people to light the lights. The raging desire to kill in Imagawa Sadayor's heart was completely ignited!

"Go full speed, kill!"

"kill"

"kill"

"kill"

Twenty treasure ships quickly docked, and amid people's surprise, short figures carrying long and slender knives rushed towards the crowd.

Finally, someone in the crowd remembered the painful lesson of the Japanese pirates' rebellion more than 20 years ago, and shouted angrily: "The Japanese pirates are rebellious, grab your weapons!"

The Japanese pirate rebellion has been going on for a long time. During the turmoil, the people along the coast could only unite and fight the enemy to the death.

They were not lacking in courage, but they collapsed at the first touch. Drops of blood dyed the ground red and slowly gathered into small streams.
The crowd fled in panic, and the stage, tables, chairs, and stools on the scene hindered their escape and were overturned to the ground.

Roars, wails, begging, and howling echoed through the sky. Zhang protected her howling daughter and begged desperately, "No! Please!"

"Please! I'll kneel down for you!" After saying that, her face was wet with snot and tears, and she knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. "Yoshi!" The Japanese pirate with a tuft of hair on his nose laughed wildly and tried to drag her into the room next door.
"You bastards!" Imagawa Sadayo yelled, "Our goal is not to rape or plunder, let them go!"

Zhang seemed to have seen a savior. She subconsciously gathered her clothes and was about to kowtow to express her gratitude. But the man's next words made her feel as if she was falling into an abyss, and she felt cold all over: "Come, kill them all!"

Niu Erya, who was protected by Zhang, finally collapsed. Her bun was already messy, the rouge on her face was smeared by snot and tears, and her new clothes were dirty and torn, with blood splattered everywhere.
The rider could not go fast at night, and after being whipped again and again, he finally ran into the city. There was no one guarding the city gate, and everyone demanded an explanation from the county magistrate and the county magistrate as to why there was a curfew!
"Military report! Get out of here!" the rider shouted from afar, his voice echoing hundreds of meters away.

"Military News!"

"Military News!"

"Go away!"

The clattering sound was as fast as thunder and it came right in front of them in the blink of an eye. All the people surrounding the county government office were shocked and hurriedly made way for it.

The scout ignored him and went straight into the guard post next to the county government office!

In the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just eaten two mouthfuls of food and couldn't eat anymore, and Zhu Biao, Hu Weiyong, Liu Ji and others who were anxiously waiting on the side finally got the call they wanted.
Because the specific target of the attack was unknown, scouts were spread throughout the prefectures and counties along the southeast coast.

"Songjiang Prefecture, Fengxian County." Zhu Yuanzhang put down the phone and was about to contact the nearby garrison to dispatch troops when he was interrupted by the ringing of the phone again.
"Taizhou Prefecture Truman Office"

"Order the nearby garrison troops to kill them all, regardless of the cost!"

At the same time, military reports from the north and southwest arrived.
Just as there are traitors in China, there are also traitors in Yamato.

The Yamato Kingdom has been deeply influenced by China for thousands of years, so they also celebrate New Year's Eve.

In Muromachi, Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu accompanied the Emperor in performing sacrifices, holding celebrations, and accepting congratulations from his subjects. After a busy day, he finally got to lie down and rest.

Although he is young, he is tall enough and looks so majestic.

He held a graceful beauty in each hand, both of them were in their twenties, with skin as delicate as snow and a waist as twisting as a snake, which aroused people's endless fantasies.

At this moment, the two beauties were teasing each other to their heart's content. It was obvious that the young Shogun was in very good health, and within a few strokes, he could shoot like a dragon.
"Imagawa Sadayori, Ouchi Yoshihiro and others should be able to succeed!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought to himself, but at the same time he was a little worried. What if the war in the north is not going well?
"But it should be fine. With those dozens of diesel engines and the information we learned from other channels, they should be able to get away with it. It's up to them now. Yamato will always get the upper hand if we just stand by and watch."

"The Central Plains is a fertile land. These damn Han people should have moved away long ago!"

"A bunch of Chinese pigs, tremble in fear!"

Just as I was daydreaming, a waiter came in and reported: "Enemy attack outside Kyoto!"

"What did you say?"

"boom!"

Before he could finish his words, there was an earth-shattering explosion that shook dozens of miles away and shook Ashikaga Yoshimitsu off the couch. He pushed the two witches away rudely, put on his clothes in a hurry and went out: "Damn rebels!"

“General, this is not the army of Emperor Go-En'yū, I don’t know…” Before he could finish his words, the second half was swallowed up by a loud explosion.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Inside the city, wailing and screaming resounded through the sky.

Outside the city, Xu Da led the soldiers to suppress the fire, while another group of soldiers quickly dug trenches.

A naval army of 20,000 people could not hide their tracks at all, but fortunately they were here to carry out a decapitation operation and did not need to hide.

Kyoto is surrounded by mountains on three sides, leaving only one exit in the south. This also facilitates the Ming navy to play a role. These 20,000 people are definitely not able to surround a larger capital city, except for one situation.
Even though Kyoto was guarded and had a night watch plan, no one expected that a navy would dare to cross thousands of miles alone to attack the Yamato capital!

"Blow the hell up for me!"

Without Xu Da's orders, the soldiers who had just learned that the Japanese invasion was breaking out in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian were all furious. There was no other reason for this. Most of these soldiers came from the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Xu Da did not say much, but just said that the Japanese pirates might attack Songjiang Prefecture, Wenzhou Prefecture, Taizhou Prefecture, Fujian, etc. in Zhejiang tonight, so the navy, under the order of His Majesty, would destroy the Japanese pirate royal family and that damn shogunate, and then return to provide support.

"You son of a bitch, you always bully my fellow villagers, don't you?" A simple and honest young man wiped his tears while calibrating the artillery and fired at the Kyoto city wall without hesitation.
These cannons were configured according to the optimal ratio given by Tianmu and were originally intended to fight against the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

That damn Kyoto collapsed in less than a stick of incense under the bombardment of the pro max version of artillery.
Tang He and Liao Yongzhong looked at each other and wondered when attacking a city became so easy.

"Be careful!" Seeing a cannon with flames coming towards him, Tang He threw Xu Da to the ground without thinking, and with a "boom" a dozen people were blown away!
"Hurry, help!" someone shouted in panic.

"Keep suppressing! Keep suppressing!" Xu Da's face flushed red. With a 'clang' he drew out his sword and chopped down a man who was disrupting the morale of the army. His angry shouts drowned out the chaos, "Those who disrupt the morale of the army will be killed!"

"Listen to my orders!"

"Medic, take the injured brother away!"

"All teams, retreat five meters in an orderly manner!" Xu Da ordered the team to adjust the distance. The enemy artillery was far behind in both range and accuracy.

"The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth columns adjust their angles and bomb the city!" Xu Da endured the pain and did not even have time to look at Tang He. He passed down the orders in an orderly manner, "The first, second, third and fourth columns, continue to suppress them and do not let them rush out!"

"Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Nineth, Column, change to incendiary bombs!" The so-called incendiary bombs were actually gasoline bottles. Xu Da was emotionless and had no psychological burden at all for killing the Japanese pirates.

Japan is located in an earthquake zone, and most buildings are made of light wooden boards. Moreover, this is the 14th century, not the 21st century.
In the capital, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu walked against the panicked crowd and finally arrived at the collapsed city wall. The towering city tower had collapsed at this moment, and there were large holes everywhere caused by artillery explosions.

There was chaos in the city, and artillery fire fell on houses near the city walls, killing and injuring countless people!

All I could see were cries of pain, screams, and gunfire.

Before he could figure out the situation, the next second's scene made him lose his mind. He saw fireballs in the sky drawing a beautiful parabola, and then they fell on the houses with a "pia" sound, and the gasoline inside poured out. With a "boom", the flames quickly jumped several feet high, and in an instant the fire became one.

The houses near the city wall caught fire without wind, and a sea of ​​red fire spread out. The hot breath and burnt smell hit the face.

"It's over!" Ashitsu's hands and feet were cold, and there was only infinite regret and fear in his heart. Only he knew how weak the defense force of Kyoto City was at this time and how fierce the enemy's firepower was.
The counterinsurgency war, which lasted for more than a year, seemed so ridiculous in comparison.

There is only one empire around that has such fierce firepower and the ability to cross the sea and attack the capital of Yamato.
(End of this chapter)