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Chapter 645: Like a duck in water

(Just come back from another place, thanks to book friends "PurdueAGECON", "Tandangdang Six" and "Yiqi Jue Chen" for their support! Thanks to "Three, XX" for their eight monthly tickets!)

Zhao Guoliang saw the remaining three ships fleeing back to the port in the telescope, and said to the messenger beside him: "Send the order, order the navy to approach and shoot, and the army landed from the dock!"

As the deputy general, Li Tinglong saw the crowded population on Nagasaki Pier, and some people built barricades on the pier, preparing to resist to the end.

"Sir, the Japanese are prepared for the wharf. It's better to choose a flat place outside the city to log in!"

"No, Nagasaki is a bay, and the seaside is full of hills, which is very unfavorable to the support of our naval cannons. Although there are some buildings in the city, the Japanese wooden houses cannot withstand our muskets. In addition, you also see the combat effectiveness of the Japanese on Fukue Island, what else can you be afraid of?"

Zhao Guoliang was the main general. When Li Tinglong heard that the main general had made up his mind, he couldn't say anything. He could only order eleven warships to approach and shoot to support the landing army.

Zhu Jiang, who was on the troop transport ship behind, saw the flagship typify and ordered to log in. Zhu Jiang shouted to the soldiers standing on the deck: "Brothers, you all see it, it's our turn! Don't you want to kill people and rob silver? His Majesty the Emperor has an order, and 30% of the robbery belong to the individual. Now let me see your ability!"

The first group of guys heard from the commander's words and asked the big robbery, and they all shouted long live the emperor!

Zhu Jiang nodded and asked his personal soldiers to put on slat armor for him, climbed the bridge, and prepared to land.

Since the arsenal in Guangdong was about to be relocated to Nanjing, the production capacity of the musket factory has dropped sharply. In the past year, only one division of weapons and equipment was produced. Zhu Hongsanyun went to Wuchang to equip the Ninth Division, wherever it was equipped, and there was no way for the 10th Division to use cold weapons.

The Ming army warships were getting closer and closer to the pier. The soldiers defending the pier were very nervous when they saw the mountains of large ships. They started firing artillery five hundred meters away from the pier. The Japanese army's cannons were cast during the Wanli period to prevent the Ming army and the Korean army from attacking Nagasaki. It has been more than 40 years since then, and they are older than most soldiers. In addition, gunpowder has been preserved for a long time and the accuracy of the shells is not enough, so they can only hit 200 meters, which is still far from the Ming army warships.

Li Tinglong was originally worried about the Japanese artillery, but when he saw the bear, he laughed and ordered: "Fire the cannons for me, change the shotguns, let these little guys see what real artillery is!"

The sailors on the artillery deck received the order and began to shoot with the crowds on the other side of the shore with the shotgun. Shotballs hit the unprotected infantry simply to massacre, and there were no living people on the dock after several volleys.

At this time, twenty troop transport ships began to approach the dock one after another and put down the army.

The first group of people who came ashore were of course the First Regiment of the Eighth Division of Zhao Guoliang. These guys began to shoot the fish that were missing on the dock with guns on the boat, killing the Japanese soldiers.

The second batch of those who came ashore were the cold weapon melee troops, and the killing teams of Zhujiang's first regiment. These guys held sharp blades, and the horizontal swords made of high-carbon steel were not something that the Japanese army's iron sword could resist. Even the slat armor they wore could resist the Japanese army's iron cannons a hundred meters away.

The country of Japan has been peaceful for more than 40 years, and there is basically no major war. In addition, Nagasaki is a shopping port, and those Japanese soldiers basically lack training and equipment. Some of them wear bamboo armor, which is an opponent of the Ming army armed to the teeth. Soon Zhu Jiang and his men rushed into the city of Nagasaki.

Nagasaki is now the only open city in Japan, and its prosperity is tens of millions of times stronger than the remote Fukue Island. When Zhu Jiang's subordinates saw the prosperity, they rushed into the shops on both sides of the road with red eyes and began to burn, kill and loot. The first regiment of the Eighth Division followed the shore. They saw that the guys from the Tenth Division were a little distorted and were about to stop it, but they thought that this was not in China anyway, and the emperor also said that one-third of the snatched belonged to individuals, so why not snatch it yourself.

In this way, the entire 12,000 dispatched troops stationed in Japan were all trapped in the crazy burning, killing and looting. Some Han people in Nagasaki City were in trouble.

Nagasaki is an international commercial port. Of course, in addition to the Japanese, there are Chinese, Dutch and Spanish, among which the most are Chinese. There are more than 10,000 Chinese people in the entire Nagasaki Port, and there is also a Tangren Town in Nagasaki City.

But now these Ming soldiers are red in their eyes. Whatever the Chinese and Japanese are, naturally, they will kill all the rich people in their families. The beautiful girls will first rape them and then kill them. Nagasaki City has completely become a hell.

In a panic, I don’t know who set the fire first. In addition, Nagasaki is located in the bay, and the sea breeze in September is dry and cold. Japanese people also like to live in wooden houses made of bamboo and wooden boards, and fires are immediately everywhere in the city.

When Zhao Guoliang saw the fire in the city, he cursed in anger: "Which bastard set fire? What should I do if I was attacked by Japanese pirates in such chaos?" But now it is all messy. The commander cannot find the soldiers, and the soldiers cannot find the commander. No one listened to Zhao Guoliang's orders.

In this way, the Nagasaki Fire burned for six days, and then stopped after burning everything in the city, but two-thirds of the entire Nagasaki Castle was burned.

The guys from the 10th Division had already killed enough and robbed them. They were escorted out of the city by the people from the 8th Division and stood outside the city.

Zhao Guoliang found out that more than 200 people were missing in such a melee, probably because he was dealt with by the Japanese samurai. Seeing that more than 200 people died for no reason, Zhao Guoliang felt very distressed. He only had 12,000 combat troops, and 200 people died in one battle. If this continues, he will die in a few battles.

Zhao Guoliang called four subordinates and cursed: "You can do it now! After getting ashore, the commander didn't listen to the orders? Who asked you to grab them?"

The four regiment commanders didn't speak. How could they stay in the army in the future when betrayed their brothers?

When Zhao Guoliang saw that the four guys were all pretending to be dead, he was even more angry and scolded: "Don't you tell me, right? Come on, pull all these four guys outside and give me a hundred whip!"

The long whip of cowhide in the army, let alone a hundred, you can beat you at twenty. Zhu Jiang didn't even have to do so. He stood up and said, "Report to the Admiral, the last general ordered people to rob!"

When Zhao Guoliang saw someone admitting it, he cursed: "Okay! It's your boy again. The trouble you caused was not over when you were in Yangzhou. Now you are here again! People come, drag Zhu Jiang out and beat him a hundred whips!"

Others didn't know Zhu Jiang's identity, but Deputy General Li Tinglong knew, how could he watch the prince be beaten, and quickly stood up and pleaded: "Admiral, Zhu Jiang has no choice. You know that the guys from the Tenth Division are all killing talents, and you can't blame Zhu Jiang. Please let the general see that Zhu Jiang is the first to rush into the city to spare him!"

At this time, other generals also pleaded for Zhu Jiang. Zhao Guoliang didn't really want to beat him. Now he had a step forward and said angrily: "Okay! I will write down your sins first, and I will report to Your Majesty in detail when I return to Nanjing!"

The Nagasaki fire burned for six days, and many valuables were burned. Fortunately, although the gold and silver were burned, they did not delay their use. It was a pity that the ivory, silk, fish glue, rice, deer skin, etc. in the shop could be transported back to China for money. However, in this way, the Ming army also got 1.5 million taels of silver and 12,000 taels of gold in Nagasaki.

This number really made Zhao Guoliang happy. It was almost the same. If this continued, it would be enough to grab a few cities. Zhao Guoliang ordered the army to station outside Nagasaki City, load the spoils into ten large ships and transport them back to the country first.

When the Japanese trophy was transported to Nanjing in early October, it was already snowing in Nanjing. As soon as the ships returned from Japan docked, a large number of gold and silver were transported to the national treasury, which immediately made the voices of the Korean and Chinese opposing foreign military use silence.

At that time, Zhu Hongsan used the name of the Military Affairs Office to bypass the cabinet and sent troops directly to Japan. Some literati led by Ma Mingyuan were still very opposed. Their reasons were very simple. Although the war in the north has stopped now, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops confronting each other in the Yangzhou area and on both sides of the Yangtze River in Wuchang. I don’t know when the war will be rekindled. However, at this critical moment, the emperor actually wanted to use troops to the outside world, which is really a joke about the national fortune.

Zhu Hongsan of course sneered at this view. If you don’t want to grab the money, how can you pay the big masters of the cabinet? You have one or two thousand silver dollars a month. Now the treasury is empty and can run away from the mice. Will I starve to death if I don’t get the money?

However, Zhu Hongsan didn't tell anyone what he thought, everything depends on reality. When the first batch of war trophy in Japan came ashore, the call for military military in the court immediately disappeared. Everyone understood people, and they didn't have real money to make a sound. At the same time, the tone of the beautification of the Japanese army in the North Korea began to rise. Some shameless literati used this victory to praise Zhu Hongsan as the first saint of ancient times, which was even more powerful than Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. The reason was very simple. There were Japanese pirates during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, and Zhu Yuanzhang also sent someone to Japan for inquiries. But he knew that someone would ignore you, which made Lao Zhu helpless.

Now Emperor Shenwu only sent 10,000 soldiers to defeat Taizu's helpless Japanese pirates. Isn't this the Saint Ancestor? Some literati are even more extreme. It is recommended that Zhu Hongsan's temple name be called Ming Shengzu.

Zhu Hongsan blushed after hearing the news. Although he was shameless, he was not as shameless as calling himself the Saint Ancestor. This flattery was a bit too much.

Of course, the scholar who flattered was nothing. It wasn’t Zhu Hongsan who punished him, but he flattered and incited public anger. What should we do if you flattered and flattered you?

Therefore, the ministers in the court submitted memorials indignantly impeached this shameless scholar and a scum of Confucianism. In the end, Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to convict him of deceiving the king, but instead of beheading him, he was sent to Luzon to farm.
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