Great time travel

Chapter 1, the end of the five years of Chongzhen

Shitennoji Temple in Osaka is the oldest government-run Buddhist temple in Japan, and the headquarter of Japanese Wazong (Shotokuzong). It was established by Prince Shotoku in 593 AD, so it has a large scale and magnificent architecture. The history and respected status make Osaka people proud.

But at this moment, this resplendent temple is burning in the flames of war, and it is dressed up like hell by gunpowder smoke and corpses.

——With the successive fall of various outlying strongholds of Osaka Castle, Shitennoji was finally exposed to the vanguard of the fallen army.

What's more regrettable is that Shitianwang Temple is a temple built on flat ground, and there is no dangerous terrain to defend at all.

Under the stormy onslaught of the Christian army, the monastery has withstood an extremely severe test.From the mountain gate, the trench to the surrounding wall, they were tossed and dilapidated like the mouth of a dying old man, and even the tall wooden five-storied pagoda was burned in the chaos.

However, under the encouragement of pious belief, the Buddhists in Shitennoji Temple are still stubbornly resisting.

——When human beings are pushed to the point of life and death, they can often break out terrifying fighting power beyond common sense.For example, the armed monks and believers who were besieged in the Four Heavenly Kings Temple, although they had a depraved style in their daily life, they had done many scandals to tarnish the reputation of Buddhism.However, when a large number of Christian "crusaders" came up from all directions, these mobs who fled from various places around Osaka still managed to calm down and began to walk from musty warehouses under the guidance of the monks in the temple. And in the cellar, a number of rusty knives and guns, old firearms, moldy bamboo armor, and even the spears from the King Kong statue were found.Those who reacted a little slower couldn't find decent weapons, so they tied kitchen knives, axes, and sharpened spatulas to bamboo poles, and put a few bricks in their pockets to make up the number, even if they were desperate Fight to the end.

Although this is not enough to make up for the vast difference in strength, equipment and morale between the two sides.

"...prepare—let it go!"

A very tall Chichitan warrior wearing Spanish-style armor raised a gorgeous katana sword and slashed it down heavily.The six bronze smoothbore guns, which had already been loaded, immediately spewed out clusters of orange-red flames, sending out loud roars one after another.

In an instant, gravel flew from the ancient wall of the temple, blowing down a large group of believers and monks who were holding weapons and clamoring behind the courtyard wall.Afterwards, a large number of ronin and wild warriors in various costumes screamed and held the crusader flag high, and ran towards the gap in the courtyard wall in disorder.

These poor Christians from the barren land in western Japan, who have long been discriminated against and oppressed, have looted temples and killed monks since they entered Kinki, the essence of Japan, under the banner of "jihad".And the gold and silver artifacts, jade Buddha statues, silk satins, and even beautiful wives and concubines found in various temples made the jihadists even more greedy, and they regarded the Shitianwang Temple in front of them as another big piece of land. Fat.

It is a pity that this piece of fat is not easy to chew - the warriors of the "Japanese Crusaders" had just launched their charge, and dozens of monks and soldiers from Shitennoji Temple appeared on the courtyard wall with antique iron cannons left over from an unknown age. At the opening of the gap, the ignition was crackling successively,

Fortunately, these second-hand goods filled with iron sand and bulk black powder are really unbearable. They are neither accurate nor lethal. They often explode or misfire, and because the users are seriously lacking in relevant experience, they often shoot ahead of time when they are out of range. Opening fire has nothing to do with momentum.At best, it can scare people... But for the "Japanese Crusaders" who are used to seeing the world, this kind of small scene can't scare them at all.

So, before the monks and soldiers fired a second shot, a group of Japanese crusaders in Western-style clothes had already stepped forward skillfully, passed the stragglers who were vacillating with swords raised, set up heavy muskets, and aimed at the soldiers guarding the courtyard wall. The monks at the gap pulled the trigger... After a burst of gunfire, a large group of monks in messy clothes fell down, with dark red blood gurgling, and life gradually disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese crusaders, who had regained their morale, broke through many ruined walls that had collapsed, stepped on the still warm corpses, and poured into the interior of Shitennoji Temple... All of a sudden, people with various accents The sound of shouting and killing resounded one after another in the temple.

"...Kill! Kill! My majestic Buddhist holy land! How can I allow such barbarians to defile me!"

In a chaotic and bloody fighting field, a luxuriously dressed monk with bloodshot eyes seemed to be bleeding. He shouted with all his strength, and frantically waved the sword in his hand, only then did he use all his strength to kill a Japanese Christian cut down, and before he had time to catch his breath, there was an ominous puffing sound one after another, and several long spears were pierced into his chest and back at the same time.

The monk screamed in pain for a while, barely freed a hand, and tremblingly wanted to pull out the gun head that had been pierced into his body, but several crusaders had already grabbed the gun barrel, and at the same time forcefully With a single lift, he was lifted high off the ground, struggling with his hands and feet in the air, cursing in a miserable voice, but before he could curse a few times, someone stopped his last struggle——another sharp shot The spear was accurately pierced into his wide-open mouth. The impact was so strong that the tip of the spear was faintly exposed from the back of his head, and white brains splashed everywhere like a fountain...

However, before the crusader who stabbed the spear had time to laugh wildly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a sharp knife slashing towards him. Although he immediately and subconsciously wanted to avoid it, he still had no time to escape the full force of the plan. one strike.

Hearing a scream, he was split in half by a bearded monk with a long handle and a big knife from his left shoulder, and the smaller half of his body flew out, and the dirty blood puffed like a water column It sprayed out like crazy, splashing the bearded monk all over his face.

Then, with a gunshot, a bullet pierced the bearded monk's forehead...

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Although the strength and combat effectiveness of the Japanese Crusaders attacking one side are much stronger than the mob in the Shitennoji Temple, after all, the temple is narrow, with many buildings, deep and winding lanes, and the troops cannot be spread out at all, which leads to the progress of the Crusades. smoothly.

Therefore, after being frustrated in the first battle, the ferocious Crusaders who were aroused quickly launched a fire attack brazenly, forcing the believers and monks who were sticking to the monastery out of the burning building, and then in the open space where there was no danger to defend. A one-sided massacre unfolded.

Although these Buddhists who were desperate to survive, they still fought extremely well, and the shouts of desperate counterattack were louder and louder. Unfortunately, although they had the momentum to see death as home, they could not shake the overall advantage of the enemy. It started to break down.

Under the billowing black smoke that covered the sky, the magnificent and exquisite temples were full of flames, and the gorgeous Buddhist temples and golden halls were all on fire. Thick black smoke rose and lingered in mid-air, and clusters of blurred The figures swayed and entangled in the firelight.In every square, temple, and corridor, the desperate cries of the dying, the popping of knives and guns piercing the human body, and the hiss of blood gushing in the air continued to be heard.In the billowing black smoke, from time to time, people were stabbed to death by spears, beheaded by sharp blades, knocked down by muskets, and some were trampled to pieces by horseshoes after being shot down by arrows, and some people were burned all over the fire. They danced a dance of death, and finally turned into a ball of coke miserably... An unpleasant stench caused by burning corpses permeated wantonly in the small battlefield, and appalling screams kept coming and going.

There are also some wounded with tenacious vitality, even dragging their shattered and mutilated bodies, slowly and painfully crawling, stubbornly pursuing the door of survival in the hallucination of dying, their internal organs were dragged away by the mud. The land... the scene is really appalling.

Seeing that one's own troops finally broke into the temple, Hale, the traverser from the 21st century, or Evaristo, the Brazilian-Japanese terrorist.Okamoto, as well as the leader of the "Overseas Japanese" Crusade in the Spanish colony of the Philippines in this time and space, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But thinking about what he was doing now, the former internationally wanted criminal who claimed to be a revolutionary couldn't help but laugh.

"...Hehe, is it true that all my struggles since I traveled through time and space are just to make Japan a Christian country?"

——At this moment, more than half a year has passed since he set foot on the land of the Japanese archipelago.

In the first half of this year, after a lot of hard work, Hale, who has been working hard in the Philippines as a "devout Japanese Christian Paul Okamoto persecuted by the shogunate" since time travel, finally got the strong support of the Governor's Office and the Catholic Church , Pulled up a "Philippine Overseas Japanese Crusade" composed of 200 Japanese nationals, [-] Nanyang natives, more than [-] overseas Chinese and European whites.

Then, Hale, or Okamoto, took this expeditionary force of 500 people across the sea to the north, relying on the artillery support of Spanish warships, and captured Nagasaki Port, the last stronghold of the Shogunate in the West Country, and at the same time, through the help of Jesuit missionaries. With personal connections, he hyped that he was a "jihadist" who came to protect Japanese believers, and tried his best to win the recognition and support of the Changzhou Fan and "Chezhidan" forces.

It's a pity that Hale came too late. At this time, the Kyushu Crusade "jihad" was coming to an end, and the remnants of the Nagasaki shogunate were waiting to surrender.In the eyes of the "Chezhidan" daimyo of the Western Kingdom headed by the Changzhou Fan, this "Philippine Japanese Christian Crusade" who is closely related to the Spaniards is far from being a timely help, but is suspected of stealing monsters and picking fruits. Hale is very critical of this product.

Fortunately, at this time, although the victory of the defeated army in the Western Kingdom Battlefield has been decided, the next larger-scale battle to enter Beijing and Shangluo is imminent.Therefore, for the forces of the fall, it is still the time to recruit troops. In order to overthrow the powerful Tokugawa shogunate, it is always good to have more power.Therefore, under the coordination of Jesuit missionaries, Hale's "Philippine Japanese Crusade" composed of Japanese ronin, Nanyang natives and a few European adventurers was finally recognized by the Maori family and successfully joined the The sequence of the downfall.However, Hale's original plan of "occupying Nagasaki and spying on Kyushu" was completely declared bankrupt—in order to win the trust of his allies, he had to hand over the port of Nagasaki, which was not yet hot in his hands...

Next, during the brutal war against Kinki, Hale's team was trained by Spanish veterans who had participated in the 30-year war, and scumbags of all colors from various countries who had rich experience in mopping up indigenous people in Luzon Island. The battlefield of prairie fires and devastated lives can be said to be like a fish in water-although it is incomparable with the modernized regular army of the Changzhou Fan, but among all kinds of miscellaneous troops, compared with those mud legs that have just put down their hoes, Hale's thousand The Five Hundred Expeditionary Army is already considered elite, and it is also more professional in looting houses.

Therefore, in the past six months of battle, Hale and his subordinates not only harvested a lot of spoils, but also expanded the team to more than 3000 people by recruiting strong men all the way.And he has earned a great reputation in the camp of the defeated army, which finally made people look at him highly.

However, the expansion of the strength of his subordinates did not make Hale feel much complacent. On the contrary, through this war of collapse, he had a deeper impression of the modern Chinese crossing group in this world-although what he saw , is still just the tip of the iceberg of this huge organization called "Huameng", but just looking at the steam warships wandering in the Seto Inland Sea, and the tons of American corn, salted fish and grains unloaded on the pier every day, there is a steady stream The huge amount of ordnance and ammunition that was continuously aided to the defeated army, the huge airship that occasionally appeared over the Changzhou Domain, and the well-equipped and powerful Chinese League Special Japanese Volunteer Corps on the Kinki battlefield, let Hale this Revolutionaries bent on liberating the world felt hopeless and powerless.

In this changed time and space, how powerful are those Chinese traversers?
Are they really trying to conquer the world?And everyone else can only struggle in their blueprint of conquest?
Hale sighed helplessly, no longer clinging to his past delusions.

"...It seems that with my own power alone, it is basically impossible to liberate Japan, liberate Asia, and establish a new society, especially to defeat those incredibly powerful Chinese traversers. Now the most The most important thing is to find a place to stand, so that my troops can have a place to settle down... I don’t know if I can get a piece of land from the Maori family with the military achievements during this period of time?”

While thinking about it, he gestured to the guards around him to follow him into the killing field of Shitennoji.

——At this moment, the Shitennoji Temple founded by Prince Shotoku in the past is already a tragic scene like Abi Hell.

The magnificent Buddhist hall, which was originally dazzling and magnificent, was first stained red by blood, and then scorched black by fire and smoke.

The shouting and wailing gradually subsided, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and scorching, so strong that it was hard to breathe.

The messy ground of every Buddhist hall and courtyard was filled with mutilated corpses.Some of them are young and strong, and more are old people, women and children.Most of the dead were local believers and monks, but on the other hand, among the piles of corpses, there were also many Christians who died in battle, lying on their stomachs, or Burned to ashes together by the still unextinguished fire.

And among the corpses and blood stains all over the place, the Japanese Christians who have just won are just like the predecessors of the Western Crusaders who recovered the holy land of Jerusalem, happily working together to overthrow the bronze Buddha, smash the shrine, burn the Buddhist scriptures, and then Putting up crosses and statues of the Virgin, worshiping reverently, singing deaf hymns... Although the previous high-intensity fighting and the smoky ordeal had already made them unkempt and covered in blood Drenched, but still can't hide the joy and enthusiasm in each of their eyes.

"...Is this a religious war? It's really stupid and cruel..."

Amidst the noisy and hoarse hymns, Hale, with the rationality of a modern revolutionary, calmly and slightly mockingly looked at all the blood, fanaticism and piety, and at the same time calculated how much loot income he could get from this temple... …At this moment, his Filipino personal servant, Marcos, also from the 21st century, rushed over and brought a message to Hale:
"...Master, the Commander-in-Chief asked you to come over immediately! He said he has good news!"

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After receiving the summons from the chief general of the Osaka Raiders, Nobukichi Shouzui, Hale ordered the troops to continue cleaning the battlefield, and at the same time he brought the guards to meet the commander.After leaving the battlefield of Shitennoji, walking all the way, there are piles of Japanese crusaders "jihadists" here and there, and maybe a few spies from the shogunate or Buddhist temple in makeup. Their queues are loose and their camps are scattered. , Weapons and equipment are also in a mess, some use long guns, some use bows and arrows, and many of them simply use hoes and shovels and other agricultural tools, or even only take a sharpened wooden stick or bamboo pole.Among these miscellaneous troops, there are only a few "elite" dressed in suits they got from no one knows where, and wearing array hats crookedly, which looks a bit like an army.The samurai leader wore captured armor, and deliberately dressed up so gorgeously and ostentatiously that it could be mistaken for a masquerade ball... In short, a group of rabble who are purely laymen.Fortunately, their opponents were even more aggressive, so they were able to win many battles.

Then, he rode his horse across the burnt ruins of the Osaka castle town, and at the same time carefully bypassed the Osaka castle where the shogunate army was still fighting. What he saw along the way was unimaginably desolate and dilapidated—it lasted for more than two months The tragic tug-of-war has completely destroyed Osaka, Japan's largest commercial and trade hub.Most of the houses and buildings were burned down in the battles of various soldiers and horses, and the remaining houses were demolished by the shogunate army, the shogunate army and the "Buddhist soldiers" to build barracks. Some smashed window lattices and thresholds, and used them as fuel for heating and building siege equipment.As a result, the entire city has now been basically razed to the ground.Even if the peace and morals of the world are really restored, I am afraid that it will definitely not be able to recover within three to five years.Of the 30 million Osaka citizens before the war, at least 10 died in the war or were displaced, and the rest lost their livelihoods.In order to be able to get a bite to eat, I had to sharpen my head and find work in the military camp, or simply put a straw mark on the top of my head, asking to sell myself as a slave... and if I was lucky, I would be taken in by the second-class dealers accompanying the army Get up, and give him a few rough bites.

Among them, the men are generally incorporated into the miscellaneous labor battalion on the spot, serving as porters and coolies for the army and cannon fodder for siege.And the women are tied into a string by long straw ropes, waiting to be loaded on a big ship and sold to the merchant fleet of the "China Alliance"—they exist to varying degrees in the territory of each alliance republic controlled by modern Chinese traversers With the imbalance of the sex ratio of the population, there is an urgent need to import a large number of young women...

However, even though the once-prosperous Osaka has become so dilapidated, the tens of thousands of defeated troops who participated in the Osaka Raiders did not experience any shortage of food and supplies—looking at the ships on the Yodo River in the distance spewing black smoke , a small steamer with a star-ringed flag on a red background, transported a boat of food, ordnance and quilts said to have come from the Americas, to the main camp of the Maori Army set up on the river bank, and various spoils of the Battle of Osaka: antiques, Spices, silks, gold, silver, jade, and people plundered in the war were continuously transported away to settle accounts, and Halle couldn't help but sighed for a while.

——No matter in which time and space, there are people who get rich from war and destruction like this, sucking the blood of others to get fat...

I don't know what kind of future is planned for Japan in the scripts written by these Chinese traversers?
Judging from the modern animosity between China and Japan, I am afraid that the prospects are not very optimistic...

Hale thought so anxiously, but in the face of the desperate comparison of strength, he felt so powerless.

As the distance to the main formation got closer, the troops that appeared along the way gradually became more organized. At least they had unified military uniforms and muskets with bayonets, and the camps were built in a more orderly manner... The general guarded Nobuyoshi's main formation , located next to the pier on the south bank of the Yodo River.For some unknown reason, Nobukichi Shousui did not follow the tradition of the Warring States Period in Japan, enclosing a square open space with white cloth for the samurai to hold meetings in the open air, but moved the entire headquarters to a ship moored by the river bank. On the large Anzhai boat, it looks as if it is ready to move at any time.

And when Hale went in to salute and meet with him, he discovered that this well-known "Changzhou old man" was really about to move.

"... This winter's Osaka Raiders, just like this is the end of the preparations to withdraw troops? So let me take the troops to Kyoto to report my achievements?"