In May of the fourth year of Ruiyuan, after more than a month of sailing, the warships of the Daming Navy, as well as a hundred merchant ships full of goods, finally arrived in Japan, Yang He made arrangements and deployments, 20,000 sailors and soldiers went to war, and 10,000 sailors guarded the warships and merchant ships, and the next battle, in Yang He's words, was to cut melons and vegetables.

The rule of the Japanese shogunate, in fact, is that the military rules the country, the concentrated military personnel form the shogunate, override the civilian bureaucracy, decide all the affairs of the country, the shogunate in the form of the emperor's authorization, but the emperor does not have any power, this kind of shogunate rule, in the final analysis, is the military to coerce the son of heaven to order the princes.

The shogunate of the Tokugawa family is the most powerful, so Tokugawa Ieyasu served as the general who represented the highest position of the military, but unfortunately, other families may not completely obey the words of the Tokugawa family, after all, these families also have very good military strength, although these families are nominally the feudal state of the shogunate, but everything within the feudal state, Tokugawa Ieyasu may not be able to interfere, so the Tokugawa family nominally rules the whole of Japan, in fact, it can really rule the place, Only a quarter of the entire territory of Japan.

The rule of the shogunate has advantages, but the disadvantages are more prominent, that is, it is difficult to form a real joint force, once it encounters the invasion and attack of the outside world, the power class headed by the military group, whether it is the shogunate or the feudal state, because their respective needs are inconsistent, it is very easy to cause a divided situation, they cannot unite externally, and there may even be internal divisions.

Zheng Zhilong is the inside story of the Japanese shogunate's rule, but the emperor knows better.

After landing, Yang He began to fight in strict accordance with the requirements of the emperor's will, and whenever he encountered the feudal army that resisted, the sailors and soldiers hit mercilessly, and those who were willing to trade with the Ming court. Yang He followed Zheng Zhilong's suggestion and even directly sent Zheng Zhilong to negotiate a deal with the other party.

Before the sailor set out, Xu Wanghua had suggested sending a civil official to follow, but this suggestion was opposed by Zhou Yanru and others, who believed that Zheng Zhilong was actually a civil official, and now he was a Hubu Langzhong. If a civilian official is dispatched separately and is not familiar with Japanese affairs, if the decision is not appropriate, it may have a bad impact.

Xu Wanghua also figured it out and did not insist on his own opinion.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong is responsible for all the things that come forward to discuss.

The target of the sailor was Edo.

Edo was the seat of the Tokugawa family and the seat of the shogunate, and the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was in Edo, as was the emperor of Japan. The emperor was the nominal leader of Japan, but the real leader was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who served as the shogun of the Shogun.

The Sailor would not attack the other feudal states under the shogunate too much, but he must completely exterminate the Tokugawa family and return power to the emperor of Japan according to the emperor's request.

Strictly speaking, the Japanese emperor could not really rule the whole of Japan because he was not strong enough, and the emperor and the imperial court decided to exterminate the Tokugawa Ieyasu family, the most powerful family in Japan. Returning the so-called power to the Japanese emperor would only plunge Japan into the next Sengoku era. Internal strife has become more frequent.

As for who the next shogunate was, the emperor and the imperial court did not care.

Zheng Zhilong's propaganda along the way also means this.

Some feudal states that have conflicts with the Tokugawa family will never come forward at this moment, and those feudal states that obey the leadership of the Tokugawa family will stand out for the Tokugawa family. will encounter a merciless blow from the sailor.

The Japanese still have a certain reputation in the Ming Dynasty, think about the Jiajing period, the Japanese are rampant on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, extremely cruel, burning, killing and looting are all evil. made the common people miserable, and the army of the imperial court responsible for exterminating the Japanese invaders suffered repeated defeats, and it was not until the rise of the Qi family army that the Japanese were truly exterminated.

Therefore, Yang He is still fully prepared and ready to face one fierce battle after another.

It's a pity that Yang He's preparation was almost in vain, he didn't expect that the so-called samurai in Japan would be vulnerable in front of the sailors.

The samurai of Japan are indeed desperate, and when they fight, they hold their katanas high in both hands and charge forward desperately, but how can the katana held by these samurai resist the bullets of Mauser guns and the powerful Francis.

It's just that these samurai are surprisingly stupid, after the battle begins, they know that they charge forward with their katanas held high in both hands, and they don't know how to dodge, let alone retreat, this is not a live target for the sailors, so in many battles, those warriors did not rush into the position of the sailor at all, and in the process of charging, they were all shot.

At this time, Yang He understood the emperor's entrustment, why can't he be soft-hearted, after several battles in a row, the sailor completely wiped out four or five waves of attacking feudal warriors with very few casualties, although the number is not very large, if this is changed to fight in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Yang He must be unbearable, this is like a battle between a sturdy adult and a baby, there is no suspense, the ending is exactly the same, to put it bluntly, this is not a battle, this is a massacre.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten, and this is the last word.

In just half a month, 20,000 sailors arrived in Edo.

Edo is the seat of the shogunate of Japan and the nominal capital of Japan.

Outside Edo Castle, more than 10,000 samurai from the Tokugawa family, as well as samurai from other feudal kingdoms who came to their aid, a total of more than 20,000 samurai, were ready to fight to the death against the Ming army.

There was not much contact between the Japanese shogunate and the feudal states, and the information was by no means shared, so that when the Daming Naval Division was about to approach Edo, Tokugawa Ieyasu learned the news, so he began to dispatch troops to prepare for the fight with the Great Ming Naval Division.

There has never been an army from outside Japan to enter Japan, and the Yuan Dynasty, which was invincible back then, was not able to enter Japan because of the wind and waves at sea, but this time it was different, and the Daming Navy Division had already hit Edo.

Naturally, Tokugawa Ieyasu was going to do his best to resist it.

Yang He held a high-powered telescope and looked at the Japanese samurai who were waiting for battle, he was used to the actions of these Japanese samurai before the fight, that is, squatting slightly with his legs, holding the hilt of the knife with both hands, the knife edge facing down, and his eyes looking straight ahead.

Yang He admired the Japanese samurai a little, but he was more pitiful, knowing that he could not win, but he was unwilling to surrender, and he could defend the city and rely on the city to fight, but he wanted to go out of the city to fight.

Is there something wrong with the head?

In the previous battles, they were met with small-scale samurai attacks, and sometimes there were only a few hundred people.

But this time the battle was different, the Tokugawa family gathered more than 20,000 samurai, which was about the same number as the sailor soldiers, which meant that the battle must have been very cruel, or the killing was very cruel.

Yang He would not be soft-hearted, he spoke coldly to the herald beside him.

"Tell General Zheng, General Ding, and all the soldiers that when the battle begins, you must never be soft-hearted and not let go of any opponent......"

The drums sounded and the battle began.

The sailors did not immediately begin to charge, and the first thing to sound was the rumbling of cannons.

Yang He did not carry the Hongyi cannon, but carried a lighter Furlong machine, which was more flexible in field combat, and its lethality was greater than that of the Hongyi cannon to a certain extent, but the firing range was not as good as the Hongyi cannon.

To fight with the Japanese samurai, there is no need for Hongyi cannons, because the Japanese samurai have no idea of guarding the city at all, they are completely out of the city to fight, at the beginning when Zheng Zhilong told Yang He, he didn't believe it, it should be said that there are no such stupid people, now Yang He understands and believes, because he feels that the Japanese are not stupid, but conceited outrageous.

When the naval division attack began, Yang He was still holding a high-powered telescope and looking at everything on the battlefield.

It can be regarded as Yang He's self-sustaining ability is good, if he were someone else, I am afraid that he would have opened his mouth wide a long time ago, thinking that he had seen a fool.

The cannonballs of the Fran machine fell among the samurai, some of the samurai were blown up and flew up, and many more fell in pieces, but no one dodged, on the contrary, the fallen samurai were quickly dragged away, and some samurai added to this position to stand.

The brain burned out.

This is Yang He's idea.

Zheng Zhilong came, and after the bombing of the Fran plane, Ding Baokun will lead the soldiers of the Naval Cavalry Battalion and the Shenji Battalion to charge, and Zheng Zhilong will lead the reserve.

"General Zheng, I really don't understand, this Japanese samurai is so combative, how can I still make noise in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing period, I thought of the emperor's entrustment, if I encounter such a battle in the Ming Dynasty, I will directly ask the opponent to surrender, such a battle is really boring."

"Dashuai, the last general knows that this is the so-called Japanese spirit of bushido, and on the battlefield, they are really not afraid of death."

Yang He removed the binoculars and looked at Zheng Zhilong as he spoke.

"I don't think this is not afraid of death, if someone in the Zheng family army commands the battle like this, the emperor is afraid that he will have already started to kill, the purpose of the battle is to win, and if he can't win in a short time, then he must preserve his strength and wait for the next attack."

Zheng Zhilong also nodded and spoke.

"The samurai of Japan are by no means the opponents of the sailors, and the last general is already thinking about how to consult with the emperor of Japan after taking Edo."

Yang He smiled and patted Zheng Zhilong on the shoulder.

"That's a good thing to say, no matter what, the sailor attack is to complete the emperor's deployment, our purpose is to trade and make money, but no one wants to stay here, the fight along the way, I want to thank you, if you didn't help coordinate in the middle and dissuade me from killing, I don't know and how many people have been killed, and the emperor will definitely reprimand at that time."

Zheng Zhilong didn't speak, but sighed slightly, his wife Tagawa is Japanese, and she is the daughter of the Tagawa family, the biological daughter of the owner of Tagawa Island, and he also has a son, Tagawa Qizuo Gatekeeper, who still stays in Japan and stays in Hirado. (To be continued.) )