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Chapter 165: It's a bastard if you don't take advantage of it

It's a little late, the second update is here!

————Wang Wenyue, who received the order, immediately began to change his strategy, sent troops again, and began to mobilize the Kanto area.

The Japanese in the Kanto region were simply unable to resist the raid of the mixed brigade of the Honshu.

What kind of guerrilla warfare is, before the firearm technology reaches that level, you can only fight hand-to-hand combat if you want to resist. If you mix hand-to-hand combat with the state, you will almost be seeking death.

At the same time, the Kanto region is a plain area, so it is not valid for any guerrilla war to fight.

All precious metals are scraped.

As for the Japanese slaves, the Japanese slaves have not been arrested yet, after all, there are still 150,000 Japanese slaves that have not been transported back. When these Japanese slaves are transported back next time, it will not be too late to arrest them again.

The plundering was very thorough. Even Edo Castle was swept up again. Not to mention, a lot of property was found. If it were only those Japanese officials and samurai last time, even civilians began to plunder the homes.

For a time, the entire Kanto area was full of complaints and the public was full of grievances, but Wang Wenyue didn't care about these things and turned to contact the messengers of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

According to the order issued by the military headquarters, Wang Wenyue made five requirements.

First: The Tokugawa shogunate paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, tributed 50,000 taels of gold every year and several specialties.

Second: The Tokugawa shogunate compensated the Shandong army with 30 million taels of military expenses.

Third: The Tokugawa Shogunate opened Japanese markets and ports to Shandong merchant ships, allowing Shandong ships to trade with any Daming, and enjoy exemption of relevant taxes in Japan.

Fourth: The Tokugawa shogunate is not allowed to have a navy.

Fifth: Hokkaido and Hokkaido fishing grounds belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Sixth: Establish the Nagasaki Concession and allow the Shandong Army to station 3,000 people in Nagasaki to protect the expatriates.

These five articles are the main content of the treaty. Wang Wenyue offered such a price, so the actual bottom line would naturally not be so high. According to the bottom line given by the military headquarters, the compensation should be at least 20 million taels, which can be divided into several years to deliver. As for other treaties, there is no room for change.

As a condition for signing the treaty, the Shandong army would withdraw from the Kanto area and recognize the Tokugawa shogunate's rule over Japan.

As soon as these treaties were proposed, the messengers of the Tokugawa shogunate roared on the spot, saying that the shogunate would never sign these treaties. Wang Wenyue smiled and said, "If you don't agree, I believe that the Catholics on Shimabara will agree."

As soon as these words were spoken, the envoy was shocked. These wise men actually knew it! How did they know?

The momentum continued to plummet for a moment, and finally hesitated and said that he needed to go back and report it before he was discussing. So he hurriedly left with a few warriors.

At this time, Su Buheng had already brought the fleet to Shimabara.

Amakusa Shiro, whose real name is Shiro Yida, was his father, "Yita Shibinge" as a retainer of "Governor of the Konishi". After the Battle of Sekigahara, he lived in Jiangbian Village outside Uto as a ronin. Since receiving Catholic education, he began to preach the doctrine that "the heaven and earth are the same roots, and all things are one, and there is no difference between superiors and inferiors." At the same time, because of his "beauty", he was considered to be the "savior" and "Tiantong" sent from heaven.

In October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Shiro Mada led 37,000 Christian uprisings from Shimahara (Nakasaki) and Amakusa (Kumomoto), occupying the former ancient city in the southern part of the Shimahara Peninsula, erecting crosses on the city, and hanging flags with crosses and icons.

Immediately afterwards, Shiro Yada began to attack Shimahara Castle and Tomooka Castle, but among the 37,000 Christians, only more than 13,000 were fighting. Facing Shimahara Castle and Tomooka Castle, which had better fortifications, the attack soon failed without any siege equipment.

Before, Amakusa and Shimahara supported each other and supported each other, and the cultist army suddenly increased to more than 30,000. After several beautiful battles, the leaders of the official army died in battle and the caesarean section. The shogunate was determined to send a general to lead a large army to wipe out the enemy.

Faced with the encirclement of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shiro Yida led the rebel army to retreat to the old ancient city.

This ancient city was originally built by a famous city, and was abandoned after the war. In November, Masato Inaba took 120,000 regular troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army with only more than 10,000 combatants in the ancient city.

But these Catholics have very firm and strong will. The 120,000 people led by Inaba Masato launched several strong attacks, but were all repelled.

Inaba Masatsugu learned from the lesson of Shigemasato Onakura's battle and used the method of siege to siege the city for a long time when the ammunition and food in the city were exhausted. After several strong attacks, he began to use the method of siege.

But siege does not mean doing nothing. Ten Dutch warships began to shell the ancient city at the request of Masaka Inaba. Nagasaki still stayed in these three Portuguese warships, and the Tokugawa shogunate also immediately asked the Portuguese to shell the ancient city.

Under Japan's request to threaten, in order not to lose Japan's trade status, the captains of three Portuguese warships reluctantly launched shelling of Catholics on the island.

At the same time, Masaka Inaba also began to dig tunnels and shot the news into the castle. He even took Shiro Yada's mother and sister as a threat.

However, digging tunnels, shooting information, and threatening methods soon failed, and only the warships at the sea were still constantly bombarding the ancient city.

Su Buheng arrived at the waters of the ancient city with three warships, five armed merchant ships, and two fly-scissors. The fly-scissors quickly came to report that ten Dutch warships and three Portuguese warships were found in the port ahead.

This made Su Buheng stunned, and then he realized that as the Netherlands' largest profitable market in Asia, the Tokugawa Shogunate was naturally the target of their favor. If they did not help the Tokugawa Shogunate, as long as Japan prohibited trade with them, it would lose a lot of benefits.

At the same time, the Netherlands was not able to invade Japan like the Shandong army and threatened the Tokugawa shogunate with military means. This is a very simple relationship of interests and gains and losses.

The same is true for the Portuguese. Although they were Catholics, they could also fire at the rebels who were also Catholic.

However, the Portuguese still don’t understand that no matter how hard they shelled, they can’t go back to the market in Japan.

After being stunned, Su Buheng suddenly laughed: "Okay! These Dutch people were actually met by us here. Those who are immortal are still hiding in the port. They don't take advantage of them. But they are bastards. If they don't wipe them out this time, how can they be worthy of the general's cultivation?"

"Tell me the order, advance the vertical line and block the exit." Su Buheng immediately issued an order, and soon three warships and five armed merchant ships formed a vertical line and headed towards the waters where the Dutch warships were located.

The Dutch Navy likes melee the most, which is what Su Buheng had after several naval battles with the Dutch. Although the artillery power of the First Fleet and the rate of fire in the melee are enough to win, there will always be losses.

Therefore, this time, Su Buheng took the tactics of vertical line attacks and then waited for an opportunity to adopt a dispersive tactic in order to reduce the losses.

… “Amen, forgive me!”

A Portuguese captain stood on the deck, looking at the ancient city that was bombarded with fire, constantly drawing crosses on his chest and praying one after another.

"Captain, look." Suddenly, the lookout hand on the mast shouted loudly.

"What?" the captain didn't understand and looked up and asked loudly.

"Ship...ship...nails in the north of the Empire of Light." The lookout hand shouted in panic.

"What?" The captain was startled, quickly picked up the telescope, and immediately saw a total of eight large ships sailing into the harbor.

The moon flag that kept floating in the sea breeze was hung on those ships. This flag can be said to be the most terrifying thing on Japan's route.

When any European ship goes to Japan, the most feared thing that is to encounter is the Shandong Navy flying the Yuyue Banner. The warships may still be able to escape, but merchant ships loaded with cargo will definitely not escape.

However, the situation is different now. In order to shell the ancient city, they are in a narrow port.

The exit is only more than one hundred meters wide!

The captain wailed, and it was over.

"Roar, rush out and talk, be careful not to fire at the ships of the Light Empire." The captain hurriedly ordered.

The three Portuguese warships immediately changed directions and rushed outside the port.

At the same time, the ten Dutch warships were also stunned.

"Damn it, who can tell me how those who were raised were here?" The fleet commander of Batavia Company roared. It is logical that the Shandong army was attacking Edo, and it only started shelling the ancient city two days ago. There may be almost no surnames that were targeted in advance.

Because this was a request made by the Japanese, they did not pay much attention to it. They directly drove all the warships into the port, and all the reconnaissance ships were in Nagasaki, and none of them were brought.

"Chief...Chief...Officer, what should we do now?" the adjutant asked stutterly. Since several confrontations, the Batavia company's warships were afraid of seeing the First Fleet.

What's more, the number of ships on both sides is similar.

They only had two more warships than the First Fleet. Although those armed merchant ships were not designed for naval battles, their combat effectiveness was not weak after being equipped with artillery, but the number of artillery was smaller than that of warships and slower speed.

However, at this moment, the Dutch warships were blocked in the port, and the speed gap was not a problem.

The Dutch have rich sailing experience and can naturally see the current situation at a glance. They are almost impossible to run out when they are blocked in the harbor.

"You ask me? Who will I ask?" the commander roared loudly.

"..." The adjutant was speechless and a moment of dismay!

At the same time, three Portuguese warships were rushing quickly towards the exit that was about to be blocked. The Portuguese sailors on the warship waved their arms and shouted loudly.

"Fire the gun!" Su Buheng shouted loudly. No matter what Portuguese he was blocked by them, he naturally had to swallow them all.

If these Portugals were released from the port, if they cooperated with the Dutch in the inside and outside, it would be over. Su Buheng naturally had to kill all possible dangers in the cradle.

Flag words quickly appeared on the mast of the flagship, and the roar of the flagship's side cannons came from a short while. The flagship took the lead in firing, and the other warships and armed merchant ships followed and fired at the rushing Portuguese warships.

Hearing the sound of cannons and the light ball flying in the sky, the Portuguese face was ashes...

(To be continued)
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