The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 680 Battle of Kagoshima

"Before your father died, he told me that if the Satsuma Domain was in trouble, I could go to Mount Unknown and seek out the abbot, Chunshen."

The hissing whale oil lamp illuminated Komatsu Huangwan's old face, and something seemed to be wriggling under the rugged wrinkles.

The Lord of Satsuma turned his head and looked at the elder with narrowed eyes, as if thinking about something.

Outside the mansion, the sound of cannons was deafening. The Tatar boats were landing on Kagoshima. The sound of muskets was as dense as frying beans. The Shimazu army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa didn't hear clearly and asked the family elder to say it again.

"He is a disciple of Master Huiran, and he used to train at Yuantong Temple on Tsushima Island."

Shimazu thought for a moment and patted his hair:

"It's that drunken monk who does magic tricks."

At this time, Shimazu Tadao, Shimazu Hisayoshi and others had already left, leaving only the family elder and the feudal lord in the house, with several samurai standing at the door.

Xiaosong whispered:
"My lord, you must not blaspheme the great monk. Yuan Chonghuan died at the hands of his master."

The elder stopped talking.

Shimazu was slightly stunned, recalling the Battle of Kyushu.

At that time, his father Shimazu Tadatsune was still alive. He led the righteous men from various feudal domains in Kyushu to drive out the Ming army and drove Yuan Chonghuan, who had run out of ammunition and food, to the northern part of Kyushu.

The expulsion of the Ming army was achieved not only by the brave fighting of the various feudal lords, but also by the divine help of Amaterasu.

The grain and troop transport ships that brought reinforcements from Korea frequently encountered shipwrecks. When the last group of Ming troops responsible for the rear guard passed through the Tsushima Strait, the originally calm sea suddenly became stormy, and more than a thousand Ming soldiers were buried in the sea.

Some people say it was a divine wind, just like what happened more than four hundred years ago.

Only a very few people knew that it was not a divine wind, but the arrival of the sea god.

"The Tatars are brave and difficult to challenge. The Satsuma Domain is on the verge of collapse. We need to seek help from the gods."

Shimazu Mitsuhisa looked at the mysterious elder and felt like he was looking at a monster.

"My clan relies on force, not sorcery!"

"My lord, that's not entirely true."

Komatsu said to the lord seriously:

"My lord, didn't the old lord tell you the secret of Satsuma Domain when he was alive?"

Shimazu was surprised and asked, "What secret?"

"Serving the ancient gods during the Satsuma era..."

At this time, a warrior was knocking on the door outside.

The Tartars have invaded Kagoshima Castle, and the east and west gates have fallen at the same time. More than 10,000 feudal troops are fighting desperately.

"Koxinga and the shogunate army will be here soon. Hold on. If you can't hold on, I'll make them commit seppuku!!"

Shimazu roared.

Despite saying this, he was very nervous in his heart. It was hard not to be worried about the combat effectiveness of the Qi army.

The deafening sound of naval gunfire on the sea seemed to come from hell. Every time it was fired, it was like the devil roaring in my ears.

The Tatars have two thousand warships. Koxinga is definitely no match for them...

Shimazu was making quick plans in his mind. At this time, the shouting and killing sounds outside became more intense, and it sounded like they were about to attack the mansion at the next moment.

The feudal lord leaned against the window and looked out, completely forgetting his promise to fight the Tatars to the death.

"But Master Chunshen is far away in Nagasaki. I'm afraid he can't protect himself right now. Tatar Qi is attacking the Hizen Domain. Even if we send the master over now, he won't be able to handle it."

The elder smiled faintly, then his face turned pale.

"My Lord, let me help you one last time!"

After saying this, Komatsu took out a red bell from his pocket and a stack of paper money. In front of the Satsuma lord, he folded the paper money into the shape of a human. Then, while shaking the bell, he burned the paper money. When the paper money figure burned to ashes, the family elder reached out and scooped up the ashes, dipped them in water, and smeared them on his lips, muttering to himself:
"Where is my God?"

"My God is back!"

The bell rang gently, and the tatami under Shimazu's feet shook.

The warriors guarding the door immediately rushed in and shouted, asking what was going on.

Shimazu waved everyone away.

Suddenly, the elder of the Xiaosong family shook the witch bell with greater and greater amplitude, and the incantation in his mouth also suddenly accelerated.

Heed my call! Lord of the Endless Void! Son of Void and Chaos! Guardian of the Abyss! God of Primal Darkness! Lord of Dimensions! Keeper of Secrets! Master of Labyrinths! Master of Angles! Almighty Amaterasu! Faith of Japan! Iak-Sathath!! Yog-Sothoth NAFL'FTHAGN!!

"Where is my God? My God, come back!"

The earth shook violently, cracks appeared in the floor, and the luxuriously decorated Satsuma palace was split in half.

Komatsu Huangwan continued to ring the bell, and the lord shouted at him to stop. Komatsu was so crazy that he didn't listen to the lord's order at all, and suddenly he slipped and fell into the opening gap.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa was shocked and angry, and he suddenly drew his sword. Supported by the courage of the Shimazu family, he went to the gap to check.

As if imprisoned for millennia, countless clouds of smoke gushed from the cracks in the earth. Darkness flapped its membranous wings and rushed towards the sky above Kagoshima, and the sun dimmed noticeably.

An unbearable stench wafted out from the newly opened abyss, mixed with the stench of rotting fish and shrimp. Shimazu Mitsuhisa held back his vomiting and listened carefully to the shattering sound coming from deep in the crack, like the sound of liquid splashing.

The warriors at the door had already fled.

The ground began to tilt, and all the furniture, antique paintings, and wall rubble in the house slowly slid towards the cracks.

The crack has become wider and wider, like a greedy monster, devouring everything.

An inexplicable force seized upon Lord Shimazu's mind, so that he stood before the crack and gazed down into the abyss.

You are looking into the abyss, and the abyss is also looking into you.

Until the giant creature from the abyss appeared in his sight, drooling, heavy and clumsy.

A huge green body like gel drilled out of the gap, came to the ground, and rushed into the vicious Kagoshima that had been polluted by the evil god's slaves.

Countless dark and sticky tentacles hung on Shimazu Mitsuhisa's body, like loving parents caressing a baby.

"My son, inherit my great cause."

The tentacles broke through and drilled into Shimazu Mitsuhisa's distorted face, and blood gushed out from the broken cheek.

When the second lord of Satsuma was dying, he saw the shadow of his father in the eyes of the monster.

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The Grand Chamberlain Dongfang Zhu traveled alone across the battlefields of Kyushu from the northern Hizen Domain to Kagoshima, killing countless people without getting hurt himself.

The generals of the Southern Army were amazed.

Dongfang Zhu talked about the battle records of the Central Army and the Northern Army in sweeping through the territory.

My father-in-law took out a large stack of flags. They were the family crests of the various clans in Kitakyushu, including crabapple, flying sparrow, and bamboo leaves. Many of them were already in tatters...

He talked about the retired emperor's experience of "hunting" in Hizen Domain, when thousands of Japanese pirates, Zuo Liangyu's remnants and Fujian pirates were killed. The mountains and plains of Hizen Domain were littered with the corpses of Japanese pirates. There were so many that they could not be cleaned up, so they had to be left to rot ("What a waste").

Dongfang Zhuyu said with great sincerity:

"General Qin, the Japanese pirates must be utterly annihilated. Treat them like animals. Only by killing them all can the Emperor ascend to heaven and the Great Qi rest in peace."

"Eunuch...are you saying that you want to massacre the entire city?"

"Exactly."

Dongfang Zhu smiled.

Pu Gang then noticed that the eunuch in front of him had an Adam's apple on his throat...

"The Japanese are all slaves of the Siren, the source of all evil. Remember, not a single one of them can be left alive, or they will bring disaster to the world."

Dongfang Zhu then recounted how the Northern Army annihilated the Matsumae clan and how they fed the corpse of the lord of the Matsumae clan to a bear. It was said that this would summon the bear god to come and assist the retired emperor in dealing with the evil god of Japan.

"Every day, Japanese people from the Matsumae domain were sent to feed the bears. The witch on Sakhalin Island said that when 49 sacrifices were made, the bear god of Ezo would descend."

In addition to feeding the Japanese pirates, the Qi army also organized the Ainu people to hold burning torches and beat drums at night to drive the fish into the set nets.

"Because bears love to eat fish."

Qin Jianxun was stunned.

He didn't want to continue talking to this madman.

"Since it is the order of the Supreme Emperor, I will obey it and kill him."

Dongfang Zhu emphasized, "General Qin's mission is to eradicate Tsurumaru Castle and kill all the Japanese pirates. Da Qi needs a clean Japanese nation. You should know what clean means, right?"

"Just kill them all. As the saying goes, if one person succeeds, everyone else will benefit. I think the eunuch has been with the retired emperor for a long time, and he's also been blessed with a lot of spiritual energy. He's been reborn, amazing!"

Wu Aheng interrupted from the side.

Dongfang Zhu knew that this was referring to his restoration of masculinity, but he didn't care and just laughed.

"If the Emperor ascends to heaven, I will also be able to achieve eternal life. Whether it is heaven or hell, I will follow the Emperor and serve him."

"If General Qin can't take action, then just surround this city and fire your cannons and muskets to prevent the Japanese pirates from escaping."

This caused the Japanese pirates in Kagoshima to starve to death.

"Alright, I've delivered my message. General Qin is in the emperor's heart, so he should know what to do."

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After seeing Dongfang Zhu off, Qin Jianxun felt a fatigue he had never felt before.

The Battle of Kagoshima was drawing to a close. After Qin Jianxun finished his military duties, he looked up at himself in the mirror.

He found that his beard had turned gray and his face had become unfamiliar.

Suddenly, countless tentacles stretched out from Qin Jianxun's mouth and instantly swallowed up the central military tent.

The desolate sound of the horn resounded throughout Kagoshima, and the reckoning of the Japanese pirates began.

Qin Jianxun suddenly woke up, looked around, and broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out to be just a nightmare.

(End of this chapter)