The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 844 North-South Confrontation
Amakusa Shiro has this idea because he knows that Ding Yi will not send troops to Japan, otherwise, if he lends him ten guts, he would not dare to design Zu Dashou and the others.

In fact, before dispatching troops, he had negotiated terms with Matsuura Takanobu and Tianchuan Yuhuang in private.

Ding Yi's son Matsutaka Nobunaga in Japan is 12 years old, and was established as the next feudal lord by the Matsuura clan.

After conquering Kyoto, they will set up the Hirado Shogunate in Hirado, and Matsutaka Nobunaga will be called the Great General Who Conquers Yi, and will officially stand against the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo.

And with Kyoto as the boundary, divide Japan into North and South Japan.

To the north of Kyoto was the Edo Shogunate, and to the south of Kyoto was the Hirado Shogunate.

All daimyo lands south of Kyoto will be divided into half by Amakusa Shiro and the other half by the Matsuura family.

Since Ding Yi's son became the general who conquered barbarians, Ding Yi would definitely not send troops to fight Japan.

And after a few years, they stabilized their territory, borrowed troops from Ding Yi, and wiped out the Tokugawa shogunate in one fell swoop.

Because Amakusa Shiro made such a plan with Matsuura Takanobu and Tagawa Yuhuang, Amakusa Shiro believed that he killed Zu Dashou and the others, annexed the troops of the Ming invaders, and Ding Yi would not enter Japan.

After all, as a father, there is no reason to grab his son's territory.

Amakusa Shiro confidently leads others to catch up.

At this time, Jierhalang, Hong Chengchou, and Zu Dashou had just arrived outside the city gate with more than 200 Ming soldiers, and they were watching the tide of soldiers and horses rushing into the city.

Because most people are entering the city, the gate is very crowded, and more than 200 of them are standing and waiting on the east side.

After Amakusa Shiro's 1000 people arrived, the scene became even more crowded.

"Amakusa Shiro." After seeing him, Hong Chengchou immediately said: "Don't rush in, wait until our soldiers and horses clear the perimeter before entering, otherwise there will be resistance inside."

"I've already given an order to plunder for three days. In the four directions of the city, east, west, north, south, you choose two, and we choose two."

Amakusa Shiro thought about it calmly: "The northern part is Shangjing, where the emperor and nobles live. There is a lot of wealth and beautiful women. You come as guests, and you should share it. Let's plunder the southern capital."

"Hahaha." Hong Chengchou laughed loudly: "Silang is too polite, all the wealth will be counted at the end, and [-]% will be reserved for you, and the remaining [-]% will be transported back to Dagan and dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor."

Amakusa Shiro chuckled: "It should be, thank you Emperor Dagan."

He followed Hong Chengchou and the others with his confidants, chatted without saying a word, and then watched the tide of soldiers rush in.

From time to time, messengers came to the front to deliver orders, divided by area.

The peasant army of the Celestial Dynasty controlled the south, and the north was handed over to the Ming people.

After waiting for about half an hour, all their more than 2 soldiers and horses had entered the city except for the [-] Han troops guarding the gate.

"Go." Hong Chengchou waved his hand at this moment, leading 200 people to rush in first.

Amakusa Shiro glanced at his subordinates calmly, and rushed in with a thousand elites.

But at this time he had a headache, because he felt that the Ming army was very strong, and Hong Chengchou had two hundred soldiers and horses, which was difficult to deal with.

He has a thousand soldiers and horses, but he may not be able to control them.

How to do?
Not long after the soldiers and horses from both sides entered the city, Amakusa Shiro was thinking of an excuse to trick Hong and the others away, when suddenly a sentinel appeared in front of him:

"Report, the royal treasury has a lot of food and silver, but it is heavily defended, as well as artillery."

"We can't attack by force. The opponent seems to be preparing to transport the silver out of the city and sink to the bottom of the lake."

According to regulations, the north is Zu Dashou's territory. Zu Dashou is not polite at this time, and glanced at Amakusa Shiro: "Let us use Shiro's soldiers and horses, first capture the treasure house, occupy all the wealth and food."

Hong Chengchou just said: "For the treasure house, each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the generals will double."

Amakusa Shiro was stunned for a moment, but the officers behind him shouted excitedly, obviously very interested.

Amakusa Shiro's confidants Amakusa Taiichi, Ono Hikaru, and Nakamura Nosuke looked at each other.

Originally, they planned to ambush Hong Chengchou and others, and get rid of Hong Zu and others. All the wealth and food inside belonged to them.

But Amakusa Shiro's other subordinates don't know about this.

And in this situation, it is definitely not easy to do it.

Amakusa Shiro had a happy expression on his face; "We should help each other, it doesn't matter money."

"There are 1000 people in my department, all of them can go to the treasure house."

"Okay, let's go, break the treasure house, rob money, food, and women." Liu Zhiyuan raised his arms and shouted.

Many soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty waved their hands excitedly, wondering if they understood Chinese.

With a wave of Liu Zhiyuan's hand, the Han army took the lead, and Amakusa Shiro's troops rushed into the city like a tide.

A total of more than 1000 people from both sides went to the north of the city together. Amakusa Taiichi, Ono Hikaru, and Nakamura Nosuke have already begun to gather the confidant officers among their subordinates.

Their strategy is to talk to their subordinates first on the way, and a group of grassroots officers will take a breath. After arriving at the place, they will follow the orders at any time.

There are a large number of grassroots military officers who temporarily turn against the water, and they will definitely be able to control their own side and stabilize it.

Just as they were assembling the parts and preparing to arrange them, a large group of people passed by a street.

Come to the outer gate of the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

The gate of the city was wide open, and there were still shouts of killing inside. It seemed that there were soldiers and horses of the shogunate resisting. There was gunpowder smoke everywhere in the imperial city, and it seemed that someone had set fire inside.

Amakusa Shiro was riding on the horse, and beside him were Jierharang and Hong Chengchou.

And Zu Dashou led his troops in front.

Juerhalang's son Jidu also followed behind them.

They all followed behind the main force and watched helplessly as the soldiers and horses of the main force passed through the imperial gate.

"Shiro." Hong Chengchou suddenly stopped Amakusa Shiro.

Amakusa Shiro turned his head to look at Hong Chengchou strangely, he kept thinking in his mind where it would be more suitable and easier to do it later.

Just when several people stamped their feet, suddenly.

In front, creaking, the huge palace door was pushed and began to close.

Amakusa Shiro was taken aback for a moment, because he, Hong and the others hadn't entered yet.

"The emperor asked me to greet you, you are useless now." Hong Chengchou suddenly said loudly.

"Hiss." Amakusa Shiro's ghost came out of his body.

Before he could react, there was a flutter, and a cold light flashed behind him, and Jidu chopped off his head with a knife.

Gudong, Amakusa Shiro's headless body fell from the horse's back.

At this time, there were two soldiers beside him, and the rest Taichi Amakusa, Hikaru Ono, and Nakamura Nosuke had already entered the imperial city, and they were summoning the trilogy to assign tasks.

No one expected that Hong Chengchou, who was walking at the end, suddenly took the lead in attacking the enemy.

After Amakusa Shiro's head rolled to the ground, his eyes were still wide open, as if he couldn't believe that Ding Yi knew his ambition and was on guard against him.

The last direction his eyes looked at was the door that was closing heavily in front of him.

The depths of the imperial city had been a place he had longed to enter, but in this life, it was no longer possible.

"Kill." More than 2000 Manchu soldiers and horses were ambushed in the imperial city, surrounding the thousand Amakusa Shiro soldiers and horses who rushed in from all directions.

Amakusa Shiro's three confidants, Amakusa Taiichi, Ono Hikaru, and Nakamura Nosuke were also stunned. They didn't expect that the other party would strike first.

And block them in the imperial city.

You must know that at this time, the entire capital has not been completely defeated by them, and there are still many places resisting.

But Amakusa Shiro's soldiers and Zu Dashou's soldiers and horses have already had internal strife, and they have begun to plot against each other.

On October 2000rd, the coalition forces broke through Kyoto, and Hong Chengchou ambushed more than [-] Manchu soldiers in the imperial city, and slaughtered all of Amakusa Shiro's confidants in the imperial city.

Then an order was issued to the whole city, Amakusa Shiro was attacked and died, and he was ordered to avenge him and plundered for three days.

Amakusa Shiro's peasant army lost its leader, and the soldiers were incapable of restraint, killing indiscriminately in the city like headless flies.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou left the city with their soldiers and horses, and watched them dog-eat-dog outside the city.

There was still resistance around the capital city, and it took Amakusa Shiro's men three days to barely calm it down. Blood flowed like rivers in the city, which was horrible.

Many people didn't control it, and they were completely red-eyed.

Three days later, when they were happily robbing, but exhausted, Hong Chengchou sent Qing soldiers in to clean up.

It took another day to wipe out all the peasant troops in the city.

The Battle of Kyoto was very chaotic. In the early stage, the 11 coalition forces fought against the 2 shogunate. After the victory, the remaining [-] coalition forces fought against each other in the city one after another.

Hong Chengchou then drove the Qing soldiers to attack the Japanese army.

After the entire city was finally pacified, Amakusa Shiro's 1 soldiers and horses were wiped out, Hong Chengchou had almost [-] soldiers, and less than [-] of the Qing elite remained.

A few days later, [-] Japanese soldiers and horses slowly appeared outside Jingzhe City.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou rushed to meet him.

It was Yuhuang Tianchuan who came, bringing with him the Hirado clan, Takanobu Matsuura and two troops from his Tagawa family.

They gathered with Hong Chengchou's soldiers and horses, rested for a day, and continued northward, chasing the retreat of the shogunate, forcing the Edo shogunate to agree to negotiations.

At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate is organizing troops to retreat and transfer, and it is impossible to organize effective confrontation at all.

The two sides then fought two more times in Ibuki Mountain and Ikeda Town, each with casualties, and the shogunate was forced to keep retreating.

In mid-October, the Tokugawa shogunate decided to negotiate to ease the pressure.

In late October, after negotiations, the two parties agreed to divide Japan into two, with the Tokugawa Shogunate in the north and the Matsuura Shogunate in the south.

With Sewa Lake near Kyoto as the boundary, the east of Sepa Lake is the territory of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the west of Sewa Lake is the area of ​​the Matsuura Shogunate.

The two parties agreed that within five years, they should not attack and fight, and should rest and recuperate.

The reason why the two parties finally decided to negotiate peace is because no one wants to continue the fight.

Tokugawa Ieko seized the opportunity to adjust, reorganize his troops, rest his life and recuperate, and prepare for future counterattacks.

On Matsuura's side, it is because the troops are still much less, and Zu Dashou's main force has been beaten to less than 7000 people.

Matsuura's strongest combat power is getting less and less, and he is also exhausted.

So he needs time to slowly digest the territory and population left by Amakusa Shiro, and grow himself.

In November, Ding Yi's son, Matsuura Nobunaga, established the Matsuura Shogunate in Hirado, calling himself the Great General of Conquest of Yi, and handed over a form of minister to the Emperor of Edo.

Since then, Japan has entered a situation of confrontation between the North and the South that has never been seen before.

(End of this chapter)