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Chapter 1200: Mercenary Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi, in the Battle of Xiaoshan in the Eastern Civil War, he led the death squads of the shogunate to attack Lu Xiangsheng's position. As a result, the Gatling machine gun blocked the mountain road, the death squads suffered heavy losses, and he himself was captured alive.

After the war, many captives from the shogunate were dispatched to various places to participate in urban reconstruction and mining.Miyamoto Musashi and Pentecost became one of a group of captives who were pardoned.

He lost the object of allegiance, wandering in Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku Island and other places, relying on the relief of friends he made in the past.

Defeated by machine guns and hot weapons, he was very disappointed in the so-called swordsmanship and art of war.In front of Hot Weapon, the so-called personal martial arts is just a joke.

Several Ataka boats at the Osaka Castle Wharf loaded hundreds of qualified samurai and ronin to meet at Edo Castle.

The aged Miyamoto Musashi still passed the assessment of Osaka Prefecture by virtue of his excellent physical fitness.

These hundreds of samurai and ronin are mercenaries sent by Osaka Prefecture.

In fact, the history of hiring oriental ronin as bodyguards for private businessmen or hiring them to fight is commonplace.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese pirates ravaged the southeast coast, and many of them were smuggling private businessmen who hired the fearless Japanese ronin to form smuggling gangs.

The Dutch opened up colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia and also liked to call ronin to serve them.

But this time, the government took the initiative to summon ronin mercenaries to fight in Nanyang. The scale was unprecedented. The first batch of mercenaries numbered as many as 3000.

"Hey, are you really the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi? I heard that you were captured by the imperial army in the previous battle. How can you have the face to serve as a mercenary? I think you are so old, you might as well go home and wait." It’s time to burrow. Are you going to the battlefield now to return to the underworld sooner?”

"I'm over 50 years old, I'm afraid he's not here to blackmail his employer's commission. When the time comes, he may bump into him, and maybe his employer will protect him, hahaha!"

On the ship where Miyamoto Musashi was located, some unemployed samurai knew that Miyamoto Musashi who defeated Sasaki Kojiro was on their ship, so they all sneered at Miyamoto Musashi who wanted to become a mercenary.

The wall fell and everyone pushed, and Miyamoto Musashi was regarded as the object of ridicule by everyone at this time.

Miyamoto Musashi didn't contradict them, nor was he angry about it.

Only when they really face the machine gun will they know the despair of the samurai sword in front of the machine gun.No matter who led the death squad, they couldn't break through the blockade of a machine gun on the narrow mountain road, not to mention there were soldiers of the Kyushu Army holding rifles next to the machine gun.

"Everyone is quiet, why are you making noise before you even arrive at the battlefield?! This time, the government recruited and formed mercenaries. You guys only have a livelihood. Otherwise, you don't know how many people will have to sleep on the streets!" The official who supervised the Anzhai boat held a soft whip and stopped the noisy crowd.

The many warriors and ronin fell silent.

"If someone dared to scold me like this before, I would definitely kill him!"

"Shut up, the samurai from Dewa and Mutsu countries rose up to resist the government. What happened? Didn't they get bombarded by the opponent's heavy artillery and collapsed the city walls, and were chased all the way to Hokkaido? Now our samurai are not as good as the lowly businessmen we used to be."

Although peace returned to the ship Anzhai, there were still a few samurai and ronin whispering in low voices.

The Ataka boat departed from Osaka Prefecture and sailed all the way to Edo Castle.

In addition to Osaka Prefecture, there are also Kyoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, Hokkaido and other government offices that transport hired samurai to berth at the dock area of ​​Edo Castle.

The samurai who were originally aloof have been frightened by the government army after going through various wars such as the Japanese civil war and the samurai uprising, and had to admit to giving up their privileges.

At this time, samurai mercenaries are like commodities. In order to obtain commissions from their employers, they go through life and death for their employers, and even die in battle without necessarily receiving pensions.

However, this is the unavoidable pain of social transformation. The samurai privilege group accumulated during the Warring States Period and the Edo Period was too large. When the system that supported them collapsed, they had become victims of the times. Come to linger.

Chief Soldier Zhang Yuan and Deputy Chief Soldier Mitsuhisa Shimadzu led people to count the number of these samurai mercenaries at the pier, and randomly checked the physique of some of the samurai and ronin.

Although this group of people was hired for cheap purposes to go to Nanyang and the indigenous kingdoms to work hard, but Zhang Yuan did not want to send a group of old, weak, sick and disabled to Nanyang.

The tropical rainforest climate of Java and Sumatra, the complicated swamps and mountains made the Kyushu army suffer a lot. Sending the old, weak, sick and disabled will not only fail to conquer the local kingdoms, but will hinder the standing army.

The governor of the Tachibana family, Takashige Tachibana, and Lu Xiangsheng once blocked the shogunate army in Xiaoshan, and arrived at Edo Castle with the Anzhai ship from Kyushu Island.

He took over the task of leading this 3000-strong samurai mercenary to Nanyang to assist in combat operations.

"Zhang Zongbing, after receiving the order, I put aside the matter of Kyushu Island and came here. I don't know what the combat goal of this mercenary army is?" Tachibana Tadashige, who was in his 20s, asked.

"This time you will take the troop carrier of the Beiyang Fleet to Batavia on Java Island. It was originally the headquarters of the Netherlands East India Company, but now it is the office of the Nanyang Province. Your task is to assist No.12 The Corps attacked the Mataram Kingdom entrenched on the island of Java and the remnants of Aceh and Johor on Sumatra. Nanyang Fleet and No.12 Corps have organized many offensives, but Nanyang is bigger than we imagined. And complex terrain."

"In addition to assisting the No.12 Corps and the Nanyang Fleet's offensive, they can also be employed in ordinary sugar and rubber plantations to protect merchants passing through areas where some tribes are active." Zhang Yuan said.

"It seems that their responsibilities are quite heavy. How many weapons do they have?" Tachibana Tadamo asked.

"It is mainly cold weapons such as Japanese swords and samurai swords. Some places are not suitable for firearms combat, so mercenaries are needed. Of course, we will also distribute a batch of muskets to you. At that time, we will draw an elite army from among the mercenaries. The squad is equipped with these muskets to play a greater role," Zhang Yuan said.

"Then can you give me two artillery pieces or a machine gun? I have long wanted to command such an elite team." Tachibana Tadamo eagerly asked.

"I don't have the right to mobilize artillery and machine guns. Only the military department can mobilize heavy firearms. The military department did not mention artillery and machine guns in the telegram. Maybe when it comes to Nanyang, when a large-scale offensive breaks out, No The .12 Corps will temporarily assign you artillery and machine guns to assist in combat." Zhang Yuan replied.

(End of this chapter)