Four soldiers came up with a large vat, put the vaat in the camp of the Chinese army, and the four soldiers bowed their hands to Wang Yuyou and said, "Lord Li has been invited!" ”

Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao looked at the vat that was lifted, dumbfounded, they didn't figure out what was going on at first, and when they saw the human head in the vat, the two shouted in unison: "It's Lord Li!" ”

Yes, the human head in the vat is Li Shutai's human head, but the human head can still move occasionally, which proves that this is still a living person, not a dead human head that has been cut off. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Yuyou stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This official invited Lord Li to Guangzhou, originally planned to use Lord Li to persuade the officers and soldiers to surrender the city when attacking the city, but now it seems that Lord Li is no longer useful." ”

Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao looked at Li Shutai who was sitting in the vat dumbfounded, only to see that his hands and feet had all been cut off, and his body was covered with dirty, blood-stained gauze, which made it possible to temporarily save his life. Looking at Li Shutai's head again, hair grew on the top of his originally bare head, and the gray braids had long been broken up and draped behind his head. From the front face, both eyes seem to be blind. Maybe he sensed that there was movement, Li Shutai's mouth opened and made a "ahhh

"Master Li's eyes are already blind, and his ears can't hear sounds, so in order to prevent him from thinking about it, we removed his chin, so he can't speak, but he may be able to smell the change in smell, and he can still feel someone coming by." Wang Yuyou said with a smile.

Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao looked at Li Shutai, who was made into a human being, and only felt frightened: Fortunately, Lao Tzu surrendered early, otherwise, I am afraid that Lao Tzu would also be made into a human being! The taste of this person is definitely worse than death, and he can't still ask for death!

Wang Yuyou said again: "Master Li can live for a while longer, and it is estimated that he can live until we take Changsha!" ”

It's so ruthless! Shang Zhi secretly said in his confidence, it has become like this, he still dies early and lives early, and he actually plans to leave him in Changsha.

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Thousands of miles away, Edo Bay.

In Tokugawa Nishinomaru Castle in Edo Castle, Lee Kwang-chi, Jang Yu-kun, Hu Dedi and others sit on tatami mats in the middle of the hall, which is a small stage in the middle. On the stage, three Kabuki are performing, dressed in thick foundation, dressed in intricate and gorgeous costumes, and dancing to the sound of silk and bamboo.

On the tatami mats, along the east and west sides, seven or eight paces apart, there were several small Japanese-style tables filled with wine and food, but not the Japanese tastes that Li Guangdi did not like, but the Cantonese chef on Hu Dedi's ship.

"Chinese food is really delicious!" Tokugawa Ietsuna raised his glass.

Compared to Japanese cuisine, Chinese cuisine is far from being comparable to Japanese cuisine. Japanese food looks beautiful, but in the mouth, it's not much better than Korean food. Because of this, Hood would rather have his ship's cook cook down than eat Japanese food.

"I don't know how the training of the samurai sailors we work with is going? I'm afraid that the red-haired ghosts may come back at any time, and I don't know if I can stop them when the time comes. Sakai Tadakiyo asked.

"The samurai sailor has completed training, as long as the red-haired ghost dares to come to Edo again, they will definitely suffer a big loss!" Emperor Hu raised his eyebrows and replied proudly.

Tokugawa Ietsuna laughed: "With the help of the Ming Dynasty and our loyal and brave Japanese samurai, we will definitely be able to defeat the rampant red-haired ghosts!" ”

In the past month or so, with the help of Li Guangdi, Zhang Yukun, Hu Dedi and others, the Tokugawa shogunate has built more than a thousand suicide mine boats in one go, just like dumplings! Don't ask why shipbuilding is so fast, as long as the wood is cut down, it does not need to be dried, and after it is built, it is a one-time use, and after use, it is either sunk halfway, or it crashes into a Dutch battleship and is blown up, these disposable ships can naturally be shoddy, and there is no need to consider the problem of wood deformation, that is, there is no need to go through drying, and the ship is built by cutting down trees.

The suicide mine boat is not large, with a length of only two feet and eight feet, a width of two feet and eight inches, and a length-to-width ratio of 10 to 1 long boats, which can allow such boats to row quickly on the sea, and the maximum speed can exceed 12 knots.

The mine boats had a shallow draft, only a foot deep, and were made of the most abundant birch wood in Japan, which was not only low-cost, but also very lightweight, with a displacement of less than a ton, and was rowed by ten Japanese samurai. The wood of birch wood is soft, easy to deform, easy to crack, easy to absorb water, very fragile, and has not been dried, and it falls apart after a few times in the water, it is really not a kind of wood suitable for shipbuilding, but the price is low, and it is no problem to build disposable ships.

Of course, it would have taken a fearless self-sacrifice to sail such ships against the Dutch fleet, and these shoddy ships would have been smashed to pieces if they had been hit by a single shell. Even if it hits the target, because the fuse is too short, there is not enough time for the Japanese samurai to retreat after ignition, and it is difficult to escape.

"But I'm afraid this kind of boat can't enter the sea at all! rowing such a boat to find the red-haired ghost, I am afraid that before the red-haired ghost is found, the boat will fall apart by itself in the sea. Hotta said.

Emperor Hu Dedi said with a smile: "If General Hotta thinks that we can take the initiative to drive this kind of ship to find the red-haired ghost, then I can tell you very responsibly that this kind of ship will not go far at all, and it will fall apart at sea, and we don't need the red-haired ghost to beat us, and we will sink to the bottom of the sea." Therefore, instead of taking the initiative to find the red-haired ghost, we took the method of luring the enemy deep and let the red-haired ghost come to us by himself. ”

"Lure the enemy deeper?" Hotta asked.

"Yes!" Emperor Hu nodded and hugged a little Lori beside him, "Just let the red-haired ghosts come in and let them shell Edo Castle, and then our fleet will suddenly kill and catch him off guard!" And our two main warships are waiting in ambush outside Edo Bay, and they are used to cause trouble for them. ”

"More than a thousand small ships, more than 10,000 samurai, this battle is over, I don't know how many samurai will survive." The Eagle Division's left minister, Jiaoping, said with some sadness.

The samurai were the main force of the shogunate, and the strength of any Japanese warlord was the number of samurai. A warlord with many samurai can control a warlord with few samurai. It is to be expected that more than 10,000 samurai piloted such disposable ships to launch suicide attacks, and the loss rate must have been staggering. If the samurai of the Tokugawa suffered too many losses, would the other feudal lords take the opportunity to launch a campaign to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate?

Regarding this question, Li Guangji told Tokugawa: "Dear Tokugawa Shogun, there is no need to worry about this problem at all, a number of samurai have been killed in battle, but after you opened the sea trade, the Satsuma Domain is no longer the exclusive monopoly of maritime trade. You also know how profitable the maritime trade is! As long as you have money and food, are you afraid that you won't be able to recruit more samurai? If you die a group of samurai, you can promote Ashigaru who has performed well to become a new samurai! ”

"It is not an easy thing to train a samurai, every samurai is born in a samurai family, they have exercised their physical fitness since they were young, practiced martial arts, are proficient in swordsmanship, and are proficient in archery, it can be said that every samurai is a master! And how can those lowly born ashigaru become samurai in one step? Tokugawa Iessuna shook his head.

Li Guangdi clapped his hands: "Come on, bring the new iron cannon!" ”

A Ming soldier walked outside, took a musket from his back, and presented it with both hands. According to the Japanese, the musket is called an iron cannon, and it is a piece of equipment that belongs to the ashigaru.

"Isn't this the iron cannon used by Ashigaru?" Tokugawa Ietsuna asked in surprise.

Li Guangji took the musket and showed it to Tokugawa Ietsuna: "This is our latest iron cannon of the Ming Dynasty, but this kind of iron cannon is not something that a lowly ashigaru can use!" This iron cannon has an extremely long range, which can reach one hundred and fifty steps! And the accuracy is so high that a well-trained samurai can kill a target from a distance of 150 paces! ”

"Can you hit a hundred and fifty steps?" All the Japanese were dumbfounded.

"Because the barrel of this weapon is engraved with wires, and it uses a long projectile that can rotate when fired, it has a very long range and is very powerful. But this weapon is very expensive, and it is not something that those small feudal lords can afford. Lee smiled and introduced the rifled gun to the Japanese.

In fact, this rifled gun is just the original ordinary flintlock pistol engraved rifling modification, this kind of rifled guns are modified guns, and even some of them are directly changed from the captured Qing army bird guns, so the cost is not too high, of course, the service life of the barrel is much shorter than that of specially made rifled guns, generally less than a hundred rounds of life.

"Bang" Hood pulled the trigger, and a bullet accurately hit the target one hundred and fifty steps away.

Although it was only the simplest rifled gun, the power of this gun made the officials of the Tokugawa shogunate dumbfounded: "It's amazing!" ”

The wooden target, about two inches thick, was pierced in half, and the bullet hole drilled into it was small, only the size of a thumb, but the bullet hole drilled out from the back was three times as large! This means that if you are pierced by this kind of gun, you will not be saved at all.

Li Guangdi also told the Japanese in a clear way: "This kind of iron cannon has a short service life, and it can only be fired 100 times, and for the sake of insurance, it will be sent back to us for repair after about 80 shots." Therefore, the price of this kind of iron cannon is very high, and the cost of one requires three hundred taels of silver, which ordinary feudal lords cannot afford at all, and only you, the Tokugawa shogunate, can afford it. ”

"And how many of these cannons can you sell us?" Tokugawa Ietsuna asked.

"We don't have much, we can only sell you a hundred. But a hundred sticks are enough! In addition to rifled guns, Lee also sold the Japanese old artillery pieces that had been eliminated by the Ming army, "In addition, we can provide you with Franc cannons and Hongyi cannons." (To be continued.) )