Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 105 Matsumae Castle Under Fire ([-])

At noon, as the last few slightly injured warriors fled northeast on horseback, the entire battle came to an end.Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others walked into the Shachuan village.

At this time, the more than 20 Ainu men and women who were killed by the samurai last night had been found, and they were gathered and thrown in the weeds behind a wooden house.More than a dozen family members were standing there crying.

More than 30 ponies and stallions were chained under one roof.Seeing these local horses with short stature and stubby legs, Liu Sheng couldn't help asking curiously: "Why are their horses so short?"

Yes, for the height of people like Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, these are not so much horses as a group of donkeys.

Zhao Xin shook his head. He was really not interested in these captured ponies, so he left them to the natives.

(Japanese horses are actually a kind of Mongolian horses introduced from the Korean Peninsula, and the shoulder height of Mongolian horses is basically 1.2 meters, three levels. For example, the main production area of ​​Japanese horses in South Kyushu is basically 1.2 meters in shoulder height Pony. As for the southern horse in the northernmost part of Honshu, it is the tallest among Japanese horses, and the shoulder height does not exceed 1.5 meters.)
The rescued Tuka and others were lying dying in a big room, and several Ainu old men were healing them with herbs.

Zhao Xin looked at Tuka's condition, and felt that the other person's heartbeat and breathing were very weak, and he was running a fever.Then he took out a bottle of Baiyao that he always carried with him, and under the surprised eyes of the Ainu people around him, he took out the red safety pill and fed it into Tuka's mouth.

When he saw that the old Ainu who were applying medicine to Tuka and others didn't even debride the wound, and were about to paste the smashed herbal medicine on the wound, he hurriedly stopped it.

Zhao Xin couldn't communicate with these natives who didn't understand the island language, so he ordered a few soldiers to find some fresh water and asked them to find some clean cloths to scrub Tuka's wound.

At this time, two Ainu women came to the house, knelt beside Tuka and watched anxiously.

Zhao Xin looked at the two short women, and tried to ask without hope: "Do you understand the island language?"

As a result, one of the young girls turned around and nodded at Zhao Xin, which made Zhao Xin overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Can you understand what I said?"

"Yes." The young girl nodded again and whispered.

Looking at the tears on the girl's face, Zhao Xin realized something, and asked, "Tuka and you...?"

The girl said: "He is my brother." After speaking, she pointed to the anxious woman beside her: "She is my brother's woman."

Zhao Xin said "Oh", and then said to Tuka's sister: "Your brother's wound is already infected, and just applying herbal medicine is useless."

The girl cried as soon as she heard it, and said, "Then what should I do?"

Zhao Xin explained: "We must first wipe off his wound and the blood around him, and then I will give him medicine."

The girl looked up at the tall man in front of her and asked, "Will my brother die?"

Zhao Xin smiled and said, "I led people to fight those warriors away, isn't it just to save you? I'm your brother's friend. Don't worry, I will definitely be able to save you if I can."

The girl turned to the dozen or so wounded in the room and asked, "What about them?"

Zhao Xin squatted down so that he was at eye level with the other party, and then said: "Go and call some people, and the blood stains on their bodies will also be wiped off."

Seeing the gentle and sincere smile on Zhao Xin's face, the girl couldn't help but trust the tall man in front of her.She then whispered to her sister-in-law for a while.

Tuka's woman looked at Zhao Xin, got up and took Tuka's sister outside.After a while, two women brought more than 20 tribal women into the house with basins and began to scrub the wounded.Taking advantage of this gap, Zhao Xin went out for a walk.When he came back, he already had a large medicine box in his hand.

When Tuka's wound was almost cleaned, he said to Liu Sheng and the others around him, "You press him down hard together, and I'm going to sterilize his wound with iodine."

Liu Sheng and the others nodded, stepped forward and pressed Tuka's arms and legs respectively.

Tuka's sister shouted anxiously, "What are you doing?"

Zhao Xin explained: "I'm going to give your brother medicine, but it will hurt a lot, so don't panic."

After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves, took out tweezers and cotton wool from the medicine box, poured iodine on it, and started debridement.The spiciness of the alcohol made Tuka, who was unconscious, start screaming again in pain.Liu Sheng and the other three held him tightly to prevent him from moving.

Zhao Xin's debridement was done very quickly. After Tuka's wounds all over his body were wiped with iodine wine, he quickly took out Baiyao powder and sprinkled it on the wounds, then took out the gauze from the medicine box, and together with Liu Sheng and others Bandage up.

A group of women watched Zhao Xin's full set of operations intently, not daring to show their air.After Tuka's whole body was wrapped like a big rice dumpling, Zhao Xin straightened up and let out a sigh of relief.

That was it, because he was afraid that these natives would be allergic to antibiotics, so he only dared to use Baiyao.

Wiping the sweat off his head, Zhao Xin handed two rolls of gauze to Tuka's younger sister: "Have you seen it? You guys will bandage the rest."

With the help of a group of women, after more than an hour, all the injured have been treated.

Zhao Xin went out and called Hu Ji, and asked about the number of seized weapons and dead warriors.Then he asked Huji to leave the captured spears and katana swords to the local aborigines.

He also left a few bottles of Baiyao powder with the label removed for Tuka's sister, told her some contraindications for medication, and then prepared to evacuate with the soldiers.

"Are you leaving?" Tuka's sister asked.

"We will be back in a few days. Don't worry." Looking at the little girl in front of him, Zhao Xin smiled and patted her on the head.

"Will they be retaliated if we leave?" Zhao Liang walked up to Zhao Xin and asked.

"If we just leave, of course we will. So we are going to Songqian Castle." Zhao Xin said lightly. "We must control here in Shachuan, and we must control the plains in the east. If we don't completely defeat the Matsumae family, this matter will not be over."

At this time, Matsumae Castle was just a small Hirayama Castle, with only one small castle tower.In the middle of the nineteenth century, in order to guard against the attacks of foreign ships, the shogunate expanded it into a large fortress with three three-story castle towers, fifteen gates and 25 cannons.

In the end, the foreign warship did not come, but was broken by the old curtain army led by Toshizo Hijikata.

However, although the city of the Matsumae family is not large at this time, the scale of the castle town exceeds that of many places in Honshu.Since the source of income of the Matsumae clan was entirely dependent on trade, the population living in the castle town at this time was nearly [-].

On the port on the south side of Matsumae Castle, from west to east, there are densely packed shops and various seafood markets; on the southwest and southeast sides are row upon row of long houses; on the hills on the east and north sides, several temples are faintly visible .

Because of the humid climate in the subarctic zone, the spring breeze will not blow here until April and May every year.So when the Thunder God was moored in the sea five kilometers south of Songqian Castle, Zhao Xin and others inspected Songqian Castle through flying drones, and saw countless late cherry blossoms blooming inside and outside the city, which was too beautiful to behold.Hundreds of townspeople walked out of their homes, wandering around in the beautiful scenery and stopping to watch.

At this time, a breeze blew by, and the cherry blossoms all over the sky were sprinkled one after another, dancing to the ground, leaving a place of pink.

"..."

Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Deng Fei, Zhao Liang and Ding Guofeng looked at the scene on the screen and thought about the purpose of coming here, they were all silent.

"Let's..." Finally, Zhao Liang opened his mouth with difficulty, and fell silent again.Anyone who sees such a scenery does not want to be a person who kills the scenery.

"Old Deng, count a few more times, aim at the point, and try not to hit the castle town." Zhao Xin's determination will not change.

At this time, in the council hall of Ninomaru in the castle, the lord of the Matsumae Domain, Michihiro Matsumae, was having a meeting with his important ministers to discuss countermeasures.The great famine in the Kanto and Ou areas has begun to spread here.

"You can't let them do this, those Eizu people will fight hard with Benfan." An elder of the Oysterzaki family said angrily.

"If you don't do this, the 'Lianghama Group' will reduce the supply of rice in the feudal city." Another Patriarch of the Baishi family said in embarrassment.

What they call "Ryohama Group" is a chamber of commerce composed of businessmen from Omi.These businessmen are intertwined and closely related to the important ministers of the Matsumae Domain.Not only helped to raise all kinds of materials needed by the Matsumae clan, but also solved the economic troubles for the important ministers of the clan.

What they are discussing is what was directly proposed by the "Ryohama Group" yesterday, to reduce the tamari distributed to the Ainu from seven liters per tau to three liters per tau, which has shrunk by more than half.

As soon as this condition came out, a group of retainers of the Matsumae family who relied on the Ainu people in their territory to work were all blown up.You black-hearted businessmen want to hide behind and make a fortune, let us genealogy retainers face the wrath of the Ainu!
No, since your "Liangbin Group" is going to be the first grade of junior high school, we have to do the fifteenth grade.Tax these merchants!

The feudal lord Michihiro Matsumae listened to the quarrel of these people below, feeling very depressed.In this sunny season, when the cherry blossoms fall and the snow falls, you should sit under the tree drinking and reciting haiku. I really miss the life of the Edo mansion.

At this time, he vaguely heard a dull thunder coming from the distant sea, and then there was a whistling in the air, getting closer and faster, and the faster the whistling sound became clearer.

Matsumae Michihiro couldn't help getting up, and took two steps towards the door, trying to figure out what the whistling was.

A group of retainers who were arguing in the meeting hall saw the Patriarch stand up suddenly and were about to ask, but the increasingly clear whistling sound attracted their attention.So everyone stopped arguing and turned their heads to look outside...

"Boom!" A huge column of smoke rose in the Ninomaru, and the flying bullets not only reaped the lives of the warriors standing guard, but also withered the countless cherry blossoms and camellias around them.

Matsumae Michihiro was overturned by the sudden blast wave and fell to the ground in a panic.Several guards crawled over struggling and were about to help him up when the second whistling came again.

Under the astonished eyes of everyone in the meeting hall, a double oar on the west side of Matsumae City suddenly exploded, and a pillar of fire mixed with smoke rose up.Then a gust of wind suffocated the surrounding survivors, making everyone present feel as if they were in hell.

(End of this chapter)