Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 150 A river of blood

"Ah."

In Heian-kyo, Wu Liang and Liao Quan sat cross-legged in the courtyard of the Muromachi Shogunate.

It’s not cold in spring, but there is a temperature difference between morning and evening. Liao Quan sneezed, his nose almost running, and complained, “This is such a damn place.”

"Well, I'll be going back home in a few days. It should be spring in Nanjing now. I really miss home."

Wu Liang sighed and said.

Liao Quan said: "That group of people have been gathering for a while. I don't know when they will attack us. They are really slow."

"It should be soon."

Wu Liang said calmly: "When they come, we will send them to death."

The army supporting the emperor had an accomplice in the Muromachi shogunate and knew that the Ming army was now stationed in Heian-kyo, but how could Ashikaga Yoshimitsu not have an accomplice in the army supporting the emperor?

Over the years, he has fought wars in all directions and not only subdued the court officials, but also defeated many local daimyo and shugo. Many of these daimyo and shugo were even his appointed confidants, so naturally there were still people who were loyal to him.

Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu knew the movements of the army supporting the emperor very well.

Now he has boarded the Ming ship and cannot get off. After the signing of the Treaty of Naniwa-kyo, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has become a traitor to the country and the Royalist Army will kill him soon.

Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had no choice but to cooperate with the Ming army.

Regarding this situation, Wu Liang and Liao Quan consulted Zhu Yuanzhang and the answer they received was to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys and kill all the troops to deter the whole of Japan.

What Zhu wants is that the social order in Japan does not collapse immediately, and someone helps him organize mining. As long as the shogunate system does not fall, the local daimyo guardians can be killed, and the shogunate is still there, so they can be reappointed.

As for the Emperor.

Since the emperor and the people don't care, then naturally it doesn't matter. As long as there is a puppet government, Japan will be firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the order, Wu Liang and Liao Quan immediately made preparations.

The East China Sea Fleet actually does not have many people, only about 5,000 at most, but they have enough rifles and rapid-fire guns, and even a large number of mortars that were newly developed last year.

In terms of killing efficiency, it is enough.

While the two were complaining to each other, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu came in hurriedly, knelt down and saluted to the two with sweat on his forehead, and said: "Two generals, it's bad, they are leaving."

"When will it arrive?"

"According to the distance traveled, it should be sunset or dusk."

"Call us when they arrive."

Liao Quan waved his hand.

He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and blew his nose hard.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu said cautiously: "General, they have more than 100,000 people. Aren't they being too arrogant?"

"It doesn't matter."

Wu Liang grinned and said, "We will try our best to kill them all."

'As much as possible.'

"Killed them all?"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was stunned at first, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

The general from the Ming Dynasty spoke as easily as if he were crushing a few ants.

If it was before he saw the Ming army's artillery, he would have thought Wu Liang was bragging.

But now it seems that the strength of the Ming army is far beyond his imagination.

Today's Ming Dynasty.

Is it already so powerful?

At the beginning of the afternoon at Youshi, more than fifty Lingzhi states and hundreds of powerful family heads, with more than 100,000 troops, marched towards Heian-kyo in a mighty force.

Heian-kyo is surrounded by mountains on three sides, a plain on the south, and many villages and fields around it.

In the distant hills and woods outside the city to the north, there were crowds of people, and it seemed as if there was no end in sight.

At this moment, on the watchtower inside the city wall, Ming army soldiers were operating a drone, looking down from the sky. The dense crowd was less than five kilometers away from Heian-kyo.

"It's interesting."

Liao Quan and Wu Liang heard the news and rushed over from their mansion.

Japan during the Muromachi shogunate era was characterized by one word: poverty!

Not only the common people were poor, but the samurai class was also poor. The daimyo, the shogunate, and the court nobles were slightly better off.

But poverty is not only written on their faces, it is also engraved in the capital city of Heian-kyo.

As the capital of Japan, it is less than half the size of Nanjing. The roads in the city are all paved with bluestone slabs, and the houses are low wooden houses.

Needless to say, the outer city wall cannot be considered a city wall at all. It is just a brick wall made of stones. It is no different from the stone walls in rural areas in later generations. People cannot even stand on it.

Actually, this is good.

At least the capital is surrounded by a brick and stone wall.

For example, the so-called cities in some places were made of wooden fences, some were made of rammed earth walls, and the best thing was to build the city on a hillside so that when the enemy attacked, you could attack from a high position.

But even so, at most they would build some slopes, and on top of them there would still be wooden fences, and this was the case until the Warring States Period in Japan.

So it is not surprising that the armed conflicts in Japan were like village fights. Without even a decent city wall, there was naturally no question of attack or defense.

But it doesn’t matter to the Ming army.

With an order, thousands of Ming troops began to gather, slowly walked out of the city and set up artillery positions.

As for the attacker.

The so-called leader of the alliance, Toki Yoshiyasu, could only command his own troops.

First, it is impossible to mobilize other people’s troops to attack like Yuan Shao did when the 18 princes attacked Dong Zhuo.

Secondly, it is impossible to provide effective command.

Everyone started to surround Heian-kyo from all directions along the mountain paths in the north.

There was no agreed time, nor was there any agreed signal for the attack.

No organization at all.

"Well"

Wu Liang and Liao Quan stood on the watchtower in the city and observed with binoculars and drones.

Seeing this scene, Liao Quan was speechless and said, "They don't want to charge directly here like this, do they?"

"I guess so."

Through the drone screen, Wu Liang observed that the densely packed warriors were like streams converging into a sea.

They may look aggressive, but if they don't form a military formation, how can they attack the enemy?

"Do they think having more people will help?"

"I think you might be thinking too much of them."

"How to say?"

Liao Quan was puzzled.

Wu Liang said, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu said before that the war on their side only involved a few hundred people. The several villages in the south fighting for water had more people than them. Do you think they would deploy troops?"

The anti-Japanese dramas of later generations were just for fun. Although the people at that time were ordinary and not tall, their fighting qualities were exaggerated.

Under normal circumstances, in hand-to-hand combat, it often takes several Chinese soldiers to replace one Japanese soldier.

Moreover, their weapons and equipment, as well as their military capabilities, are very strong and are not at all as stupid as they are portrayed on TV.

However, life during the Muromachi shogunate was much worse.

During the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, only a small number of people were literate, and the imperial court often listed military books as banned books, prohibiting them from circulation in the market. Ordinary people had almost no opportunity to read or come into contact with military books.

Needless to say, Japan came to steal our culture, and the most they did was bring back some history books.

Although the Japanese Kibi Makibi brought "The Art of War" to Japan during the Tang Dynasty, he kept it privately just like other collections in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Therefore, those in the upper class who can speak a little Chinese and recognize some Chinese characters are considered elites, and those who have read "The Analects of Confucius", "Spring and Autumn Annals", "Records of the Three Kingdoms", "Book of Han" and "The Art of War" are already top-notch families.

For the grassroots nobles who fought their way up from the samurai class to the daimyo guardian, there is naturally no opportunity for them to learn.

This led to most of the troops that came to support the king to rush forward like they had done in previous battles, with bows and arrows and swords ready. Only a few of the powerful aristocratic families had some idea of ​​how to arrange their troops. In addition, the troops that came to support the king were originally a collection of local daimyo guardians, local aristocratic families, and samurai. There were more than 100,000 people in hundreds of hilltops, and there was no unified command, so there was no possibility of them arranging their troops in an orderly manner.

"That's true."

Hearing Wu Liang's words, Liao Quan nodded, then looked around and said, "They are gathered quite densely, and have already reached the range of the artillery. Let's fire."

"Don't worry!"

Wu Liang stopped Liao Quan from giving orders through the intercom and said, "Wait a minute."

"Wait? Wait for what?"

Liao Quan was puzzled.

"Wait until they get closer, closer."

Wu Liang murmured, "His Royal Highness the King of Wu said that the Japanese are like beasts and should be killed as many as possible."

As they were talking, the troops coming from all directions to support the king were getting closer and closer.

By evening, the front troops were less than a mile away from Heian-kyo, and not only the north, but also the east and west were full of people.

Even in the south, there were sporadic samurai appearances, as if they were going to surround the entire Heian-kyo to prevent any Ming army from escaping.

"Kill!"

As the distance between the two sides became very close, the troops at the front could clearly see the Ming army coming out of the city to fight.

Among them, some warriors were filled with blood, raised their swords and shouted, and then launched a death-like charge towards the Ming army.

The entire Ming army was fighting outside the city.

Open terrain is more conducive to guns and artillery, and people cannot stand on the walls of Heian-kyo, so it is more suitable to be outside.

Seeing that a large number of Japanese had already entered the range, Wu Liang no longer stopped Liao Quan from giving orders, but said, "Fire."

"fire!"

Liao Quan yelled.

All of a sudden.

The mortarmen in the back row immediately put the shells into the grenade launcher.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!~"

Hundreds of shells drew a brilliant arc in the air and then exploded among the charging Japanese crowd.

In an instant, blood splattered.

The crowd was so dense that a single shell could kill several Japanese, causing an immediate commotion.

However, before they could react, Wu Liang and Liao Quan immediately ordered to open fire, while artillery fire continued. If they got within ten feet, grenades would be thrown.

There was a burst of intensive bullet fire.

The bolt-action rifle is extremely powerful, but it was eliminated because it was too slow in killing people.

After all, in the age of firearms, everyone was dispersed, and the killing efficiency of a bolt-action rifle was much lower than that of an AK that could fire 30 rounds of bullets continuously.

But now Japan is charging forward in a group.

When a bullet is fired and penetrates a person's body, the force can even penetrate the second, third, and fourth person behind him.
In front of bullets, people are as fragile as a piece of paper that can be torn with a single poke.

Toki Mitsutsumi was the son of Toki Yoriyasu. Toki Yoriyasu was over 60 years old and could not fight on the battlefield. He personally led the Toki soldiers and rushed to the front.

After a gunshot, Toki Mansada felt a sharp pain in his chest. He stopped and looked down at his chest in shock.

The bright red blood stained the clothes in front of him, and there was a hole on the leather armor.

Blood was gushing out of the hole.

The Ming army soldiers just fired their guns expressionlessly, pulled the bolt, and fired again.

After five bullets are fired, change the magazine and continue.

In just two or three minutes, the Japanese who were in the front were killed and injured in large numbers.

"Ah, my leg, my leg is broken."

"Save, save, me"

"woooooo"

"Omo-san, I think I saw you."

Pain, wailing, screaming, crying, and hallucinations before death continued to emerge.

The war had just begun and the Japanese suffered countless casualties.

The Japanese who were also charging behind were dumbfounded. They stopped one by one and looked at everything in amazement.

But bullets and shells will not tolerate them.

When the people in front died, it was their turn, and a new round of bullets and shells poured down.

this moment.

All the Japanese collapsed.

Everyone dropped their weapons and began to flee, crying and shouting.

Standing on the watchtower inside the northern wall of Heian-kyo, you can see that the originally densely packed crowd in the north fell down in large numbers in just a few minutes.

Like harvesting wheat.

If Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He saw this scene, they would probably be very happy.

Because when they were in Nanjing, the Japanese tied up the people of Nanjing, sent them to open areas, and massacred them with machine guns.

The current scene is so similar.

It was almost evening, the sun was setting, and the original evening light was gradually dimming.

Liao Quan and Wu Liang saw that the Japanese had just started the war and they were already leaving behind tens of thousands of corpses and trying to escape. How could they get what they wanted?

The two looked at each other, and then Liao Quan picked up the intercom with a grim smile and said, "Pass the order, each flag will scatter and pursue! Each flag will kill 100 people, and don't come back if you don't kill 100! There will be rewards if you kill enough!"

A small flag of the Ming army had ten people, and the Ming army in Heian-kyō had about 4,000 people, with the remaining 1,000 people left to guard the fleet. This meant that at least 40,000 people had to be killed before they were allowed to return to the fleet.

Time is tight and tasks are heavy.

The Ming army squad outside the city immediately began to organize ammunition and started to pursue the Japanese invaders in a swarm.

A massacre began.

At this moment, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was following the two of them, was staring blankly at the situation in the distance, unable to speak.

He thought the Ming army would win.

But no one thought that the Ming army would win so easily.

More than 100,000 people were shot dead from a mile away, and almost no one even got close.

The nearest one could only run twenty or thirty feet away, and was not even qualified to be hit by a grenade thrown by the Ming army. It was a completely one-sided massacre.

Under such circumstances, more than 100,000 people were easily defeated.

Not only did the many dignitaries hiding behind the distant army of loyalists find it hard to believe, even Ashikaga Yoshimitsu felt the sky turn dark, as if he had seen a miracle.

When he heard that Liao Quan and Wu Liang were going to continue the pursuit, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu could not help but say, "General, they have been defeated and it is getting dark. Shouldn't we return to the camp and rest early?"

Although Ashikaga Yoshimitsu signed the treaty and became a dog of the Ming Dynasty due to the oppression of the Ming army, he still felt a little bit reluctant because they were his compatriots after all.

Liao Quan glanced at him and said, "Why, do you want us to let them go?"

"No it's not."

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu hesitated and said, "It's just that the weather is bad."

"Ah."

Wu Liang sneered, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, remember your identity. If you want to live, you have to be a dog of the Ming Dynasty. Remember, the Japanese are lowly, but they dare to kill our Ming Dynasty envoys. This is just a small lesson. If you don't listen, then the Ming Dynasty will not only send us, but a million troops to slaughter the entire Japan, leaving no islands but people. Do you understand clearly?"

"Yes Yes."

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shuddered and looked outside the city.

The sun sets in the west and the setting sun shines obliquely.

Under the already orange-red sunlight, the area outside the city was already bright red, with blood flowing like a river.

(End of this chapter)