New Shun 1730

Under the cover of the mast gunners, the combat engineers used simple wood to build sticks that could climb the wall.

Those soldiers who needed to climb the mast to shoot took off their shoes, as if they were on the deck, holding the long wooden poles supported on the city wall, and quickly rushed up the city wall like monkeys climbing the mast.

This is the biggest difference between the old city wall system and the bastion system. It is not a zigzag wall and horse face, but a three-dimensional defensive structure.

If this is a bastion-type building, breaking through the outer wall is just the beginning of the battle. There are higher places inside, three-dimensional defense.

Under the old city wall system, the city wall gate was the commanding heights. Once occupied, the inside could not be defended.

The shooters who climbed up the city wall quickly gathered together. After guarding the city wall, they threw down the rope ladder used on the ship, and the subsequent troops climbed up the ladder.

After throwing several grenades downwards, the samurai who had gathered near Jianlimen and prepared to open the door and fight to the death dispersed in complete chaos.

The heavy Jianli Gate was opened, and it only took less than two quarters of an hour from the time they broke into the Hamu Gate to the time they opened the Jianli Gate.

Jianli Gate faces the Zichen Palace of Japan - although the Dashun Palace is the Forbidden City, not the Daming Palace, no matter it is Dashun or North Korea, if anyone dares to name Zichen Palace, the Jiu Clan will not be able to escape.

In the Zichen Palace, Zhaoren looked calm and sat in the main hall.

He had a good idea at the beginning, relying on the inner city to resist and letting Toki Yorino gather troops in Nijo Castle.

However, the reality is cruel. Even without artillery, this Dashun army still easily broke through this completely outdated defense system.

Since the establishment of this army, the targets of offensive and defensive drills have been bastion-style three-dimensional hierarchical fortresses and forts. Liu Yu's imaginary enemies in his mind were the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, never Japan.

The explosion of a grenade was not far away, and the shouts of killing from Jianlimen could be clearly heard in Zichen Hall. People around him were running away, but it was meaningless.

Wu Fangrui believes that this kind of city wall is both a defense and a prison. As long as the city wall was occupied, no one in the inner city could escape, so people from all over the city boarded the city and divided into several teams to control the city walls and gates.

Zhaoren didn't know it, but everyone around him except Guan Bai had disappeared.

He was sitting in the main hall with a calm face, holding a Japanese sword in his hand, and a Japanese incense beside him.

To die or not to die, that is the question.

After what seemed like a long wait but actually didn't take much time, the soldiers of the Dashun Army rushed into the Zichen Hall, raised their guns and pointed them at Akihito and Ichijo Kaneka who were sitting there.

They did not wear the dragon robes in the play, and the soldiers had never been to the Forbidden City. Naturally, they did not know that the two people in front of them were the Japanese king and Guan Bai, the high-ranking Japanese official in the play.

"I am the Emperor. Do any of you understand the Japanese language? Don't move forward, or I will kill myself."

When the interpreter heard this, he kept saying: "No shooting! No shooting! That's the Japanese king!"

After shouting twice, he ran outside as if being chased by a mad dog, shouting: "General! General! We have captured the Japanese king! We have captured the Japanese king!"

Wu Fangrui, who was on the wall of Jianli Gate, clenched his fists excitedly when he heard this, and punched the wooden tower hard. His fist could not hit the wood, and the joints were covered with bruises, but he didn't feel it at all. pain.

He only had thoughts like "I have made great achievements! I am going to be knighted." The hand holding the blunderbuss even trembled a little, but he didn't notice it himself.

After taking a few deep breaths, he took out a cigarette produced in Weihai from his pocket, tremblingly cut three matches on his clothes, lit them and took a few puffs until his head felt dizzy and his vision became a little dark, then he fiercely He threw the cigarette to the ground and stamped his feet.

"Send an order to capture the city wall and guard all the gates in the inner city. No one should be spared. The interpreters are scattered to each gate and shout inside. Everyone is hiding in the house and don't move. If they come out, they will be beaten to death."

"The grenadiers put away the kerosene and don't make a mistake and burn this place down. We still have to hold on here and use this as a threat."

In the excitement, after smoking half a cigarette, he regained the calmness that a staff officer should have and issued the order.

Wu Fangrui, who was standing on the city wall, looked back at the Japanese imperial garden and thought that he was not so excited when he led people to raid the Junggar City in Ili.

At that time, the overall situation was decided, and the commander was Ying Suobo.

Now, I once again stood in the enemy's royal city, and everything was under my command. This feeling was far from what it felt like that day.

After tidying up his clothes, he slowly walked down the city wall and came to the Zizichen Hall. Looking at Zhaoren who was ready to commit suicide at any time, he said calmly: "Why not surrender early? Isn't it beautiful to pay tribute to the Celestial Dynasty and still guard the ancestral hall of Sheji? The Holy Emperor You are kind, and you are also aware of Japanese political affairs. The Shimazu clan invaded Ryukyu, and King Nakayama went to Edo. These are all the faults of the shogunate, and you are not guilty."

Zhaoren raised his head and looked at Wu Fangrui, thinking to himself that you wanted to capture me alive, so you didn't dare to use violence. I threatened you with death. Now that you have won, you still don't dare to use violence to me?

After the interpreter translated these words, Zhaoren said coldly: "You Chinese, with your great etiquette, don't you hear that the king died in Sheji? Did Shunguo really start the war because of Ryukyu? If it was just for the sake of In the case of Ryukyu, would there be such a request for the establishment of trade? As the ancients said, the man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying the jade. Isn't it true that what he said was gold and silver?

Wu Fangrui thought to himself, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you here, but I think it's a great achievement to capture them alive. If they are dead, although we can still capture a bunch of nobles and royal family members, the credit is still a little less. Since you have the idea that the king dies for the country, this is a bit difficult to deal with.

After thinking about it, Wu Fangrui decided to give it a try. He waved his hand and asked the soldiers to guard outside the door now, leaving only a more familiar interpreter.

After the soldiers withdrew, Wu Fangrui took off his weapons, stepped forward two steps and said: "At this time, don't pass on the fifth person. I might as well say some things directly."

"Do you think that Japan has fought against the Celestial Empire?"

Zhaoren saw that the soldiers had all retreated, and didn't know what Wu Fangrui wanted to do. Seeing him take two steps forward, his expression became more alert.

But after Wu Fangrui asked this question, he stopped moving forward.

Without the threat of being captured by surprise, Zhaoren gradually calmed down.

After thinking for a while, he finally shook his head and said, "We can't win. The ancients said, if you start with this, you must end with this. Hasn't the Celestial Empire ever thought about this? If we humiliate the country with force today, how can we be sure that there will be no other country that will humiliate China with force tomorrow?"

"Besides, if you pretend to be kind for the sake of profit, even if the country pays tribute, how can you be convinced?"

Wu Fangrui laughed and said, "Only turtles can live long, but I can't live that long. I just care that no one dares to humiliate me while I am alive. As for the future, the ancestors of the Han and Tang dynasties don't know the future, so how can I, a small officer, care so much?"

"The king dies for the country, There are etiquettes, but they are different now. My lord Ying Suo once said that your country has little etiquette but no great righteousness. Now it seems to be true. "

"Now the army of our country has gathered in Xiaohama. Japan has thousands of miles of sea, but it does not have a single warship. There is no chance of winning even if we fight. The sooner the peace talks, the less losses will be for the people and the vitality of your country. "

"If you really want to die for the country, you should not die. What's the point of dying? You are just a coward. "

"I am not going to take you as a prisoner, but to ask you to negotiate. If I catch you, , will it be useful? Won't the shogunate do what Yi Yin and Huo Guang did and establish another one? In the Tumu Fortress Incident of the former Ming Dynasty, there was no shogunate, but a new emperor could be established. Don't you know how to do this? If the Shaodi was abolished, would there be no Xiandi? "

"Now the shogunate is in a difficult situation. If the shogunate proposes peace talks, the feudal lords on Kyushu Island will definitely be dissatisfied and will have their own opinions. People will be uneasy. The shogunate is constrained by this and can only hold on. But what's the point of holding on? Countless people were killed and injured, and cities were conquered one after another. At this time Death is not only not death for the country, but also endangerment for your country. "

"If you commit suicide, will the shogunate not be guilty of trapping the King of Japan? If the shogunate is in chaos, Japan will be in chaos again, and the people will suffer. This is not in line with the benevolence of the Celestial Empire."

"So, you only know small etiquette, but not big righteousness. Small etiquette, you should die; big righteousness, you should talk to the Celestial Empire to preserve the prestige of the shogunate and keep the name from being in chaos."

While saying this, in fact, Wu Fangrui has been influenced by Liu Yu's subtle influence, and his treatment of Japan is also inclined to the theory of defending the land officials mentioned by Liu Yu before.

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. Now he does not support the idea of ​​"real conferring Japan" by some people in the army.

His merits have been enough to be conferred a title. Even if he actually conferred a title on Japan, it can only be a small title, not a big one. It is impossible to confer five titles on Japan.

So he supported Liu Yu to let Japan maintain the stability of the shogunate, but weaken its authority, so that the Celestial Empire could control Japan, forcing the shogunate to compromise with the Celestial Empire in order to maintain stability, so as to prevent the Celestial Empire from supporting the descendants of the Western Army.

The Celestial Empire needs a new policy of governing the vassal states.

Divide and rule, divide and control, and facilitate trade.

Neither occupy nor control, the cost is too high, and it will also involve too much energy of the court.

He talks about benevolence and righteousness, but his heart is all about business. When he set fire everywhere before, he did not hesitate at all.

After sending away the rest of the soldiers, Wu Fangrui wanted to persuade Zhaoren. After all, if he died, it would be less valuable than being alive.

His thinking was very clear. Now everyone in Japan knew that they could not win, but now the shogunate had to consider the subsequent impact.

In his heart, he supported Dashun to land and fight on Kyushu Island, so that the army could play a role, and he could also make great contributions, truly command a battle, and gain some experience.

But he actually understood it in his heart. The Privy Council did this, sending the navy everywhere to fight, but not landing on Kyushu Island. I'm afraid it was not a joke.

Obviously, the Privy Council did not want to weaken the power of the Kyushu Island vassal too much.

Just like the Dashun used the Junggar to scare the Khalkha tribe, the Kyushu Island vassal was needed to make the shogunate obey the Dashun. If you want to suppress the outer daimyo, you have to listen to the Dashun.

If the Dashun army fights the Kyushu Island vassal to their heart's content, the Dashun will not suffer too much loss after the military reform, but the Kyushu Island vassal will suffer a great loss.

In the end, the shogunate is still strong, but the biggest opposition force was swept away by the Dashun. This easily reminds Wu Fangrui of the Anglo-French War in Europe that Liu Yu told them: the British helped the King of France to sweep away the powerful feudal lords, which made France the first to centralize power.

Moreover, if they want to attack Kyushu Island, the shogunate can wait for the feudal lords to become unable to bear it and take the initiative to ask for peace talks. In that case, the shogunate will have the strongest military force and will not be criticized for hosting the peace talks.

The Privy Council probably does not want to see this situation, so it made such a strategy, at least Wu Fangrui thought so.

If Akihito can negotiate with Dashun as the King of Wa, it can be regarded as a way for the shogunate to save face.

To use a very inappropriate analogy, it is like Shu Han beat Cao Wei violently. Cao Wei was obviously no match for Shu Han, and Shu Han captured Emperor Xian of Han, but only asked Liu Bei to be named "King of Hanzhong", not to unify the north.

This is a win-win situation, the shogunate is happy, and Dashun is also happy.

After saying it clearly, Wu Fangrui said: "Even if you want to die for the country, you should die after the peace talks, so that it can be called the death of the country. For example, in the Jiashen year, the former Ming Youzong should abdicate to my ancestor emperor, swear to the world and drive out the Tartars, and then die, so that it can be called the death of the country."

Hearing this, Zhaoren thought for a moment and sneered: "You only talked about the Jiashen year, but forgot the Ming Yingzong, who surrendered to the Wala, asked the city to open the gates, offered the wives of meritorious officials to the Tartar chief, and established Yesen's temple in the capital? Are you asking me to follow your example?"

Wu Fangrui laughed and said, "Emperor Xian asked Prime Minister Cao to commit suicide. Did Prime Minister Cao listen? Who do you think you are? Not to mention calling for the castles of various feudal domains, even if I ask you to call for Nijo Castle now, do you think they will open the gate? Do you have some idea in your mind?"

"If you go there and the shogunate appoints a new king, you can die. That means you must fight to the end; if there is no new king, you should not die. It shows that the shogunate hopes that you will negotiate, but it was embarrassed to take the initiative to send you to the camp of the Celestial Empire before."

"Isn't that the truth?"