Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

Two rounds of artillery fired, and the entire Kobe port was filled with black smoke. From time to time, cries and roars could be heard in the town hall. Qin Hao heard it clearly on the Wansheng ship, but he had no time to care about it now. , he was enjoying the fresh citrus sent from the Hsinchu plantation with the non-commissioned officers below.

Not long ago, under Zhuge Xuan's policy, Hsinchu teamed up with Qin and Han merchants to open an orchard, which contains grapes, tomatoes, peaches, watermelons, citrus, etc. Taiwan, as a tropical island, is the most suitable for growing fruits.

Moreover, in the age of navigation, sailors at sea lacked vitamins, and now there are no vitamin tablets to synthesize them. Fruits are a must-have on the ship. In early May, when the first batch of citrus ripened, Zhuge Xuan sent people to send hundreds of citrus varieties. , received just as the fleet was leaving Ryukyu.

Pull open the orange skin of the citrus to reveal the fresh and juicy orange petals. Break off four or five petals and put them into your mouth. The moment the juicy pulp comes into contact with the dry mouth, the sweet juice and the fragrance of the pulp burst out instantly. Coupled with the sweet pulp, people immediately forget that they are in the middle of a war.

"Lord! The threat in Kobe has been basically eliminated by us, right?"

Qin Hao was busy eating oranges and had no time to talk. He just waved his hand and asked the guard on guard to bring some oranges, "These are from Hsinchu, try them!"

Duan Daxin took the orange after bowing, and regardless of the greasiness in his hands, he tore open the peel and started to feast on it. While eating, he exclaimed, "It's so delicious!" He didn't look like a fleet commander at all.

It made many soldiers on guard feel amused. It seems that our captain, who is usually as fearful as a tiger, is as docile as a kitten in front of Master Qin Hao.

It seemed that he was aware of the strange looks around him, but Duan Daxin did not stop chewing in his mouth, but only speeded up. After all, he still had to save some face in front of his men, otherwise it would be difficult to lead troops in the future.

After quickly getting rid of the rewarded tangerines, Duan Daxin continued to ask for instructions: "Lord, when will we land in Kobe?"

Qin Hao looked up at Duan Daxin, then looked around and found that the soldiers around him looked impatient. They were not here to hang out or do business. Their only purpose was Conquer Japan, conquer Japan.

Established achievements, glory and wealth, just today, looking at the atmosphere in front of him, Qin Hao was secretly proud. It seemed that the last war with Zheng Zhilong had cultivated a large number of blood-hungry soldiers.

This is not a bad thing, but rather praiseworthy.

"Okay!" Qin Hao naturally would not let the hopes of the soldiers fail. "Give me the order. After burning a stick of incense, prepare to log in. We will set up camp in Kobe City tonight."

After receiving the order, the flag bearer immediately climbed up to the watchtower of the ship, and then waved two colorful flags. After a while, the other six warships burst into cheers and drums.

As soldiers of the Suncheon Battalion on the main ship, they have prepared their weapons backpacks and are waiting to land and capture Kobe.

From the perspective of this group of elite soldiers, the Japanese Ashigaru who wanted to attack just now were simply too mud to hold up the wall, otherwise they would not have been destroyed by artillery fire in an instant.

Many people began to silently calculate in their hearts the benefits of doing meritorious deeds this time.

"An enemy soldier is worth one tael of silver. This time I will kill at least ten of them. This money can buy a wife."

Everyone's faces were full of desire. This was not a soldier's idea, almost all the young soldiers in the fleet had fantasized about it.

Hsinchu, now a deputy city, has developed such an industry under the supervision of the government. Marriage agencies are a novel thing. Soldiers who have received basic education generally understand that they can get a wife as long as they pay money.

Faced with the situation that there are more men than women in Taiwan, such a product is bound to appear. In order to prevent people from secretly harming personal interests and personal danger, under Zhuge Xuan's initiative, a marriage agency was established.

The girls among them were all from Nanyang, and most of them were sent by Zheng Zhilong. As for the girls from the Ming Dynasty, Qin Hao did not agree. This thing is not good, so naturally it cannot be used to harm his own people.

As for other people, they are no longer on his list of concerns. After Japan is captured, there will probably be another source of women.

With such a desire, all the soldiers screamed with desire, striving to kill more enemies and use the blood of the enemies to forge their own blood.

"Log in!"

After giving the order, the soldiers who were ready to go took up their weapons and boarded the assault canoes one after another. With the paddlers struggling to move, more than a dozen canoes sailed towards the shore of Kobe.

Due to the destruction of Kobe's shore batteries, the journey was extremely smooth. After landing, the soldiers did not immediately attack the city, if this was indeed necessary in the past.

But this time, the officers did not have such a request. As for the reason, you can understand it by looking at the broken limbs and bodies on the beach.

"Keep them quiet!"

As the landing commander, Zhang Hu reprimanded, but his voice was not addressed to the soldiers lining up, but to the Japanese samurai who were crying in mourning on the beach.

Several soldiers who saw the order received immediately shouldered their flintlock rifles, took out bayonets from their waist pockets, clicked them into the slots on the front of the flintlock rifles, and then sent them away with the grateful eyes of the Japanese samurai.

"Enter the city!"

Following Zhang Hu's order, half of the three hundred Shuntian soldiers rushed to Kobe City, preparing to capture it, and the other half went straight to Kobe Port to receive it immediately.

Without too many words, Soldier Gate took steady steps towards his goal while sinking.

Compared with the completely destroyed and defenseless Kobe Port, it was still a bit difficult to defeat the basically undamaged Kobe City, so Zhang Hu decided to lead his troops there in person.

At this time, Kobe City had long been in chaos. It was supposed to be a place where samurai nobles lived, but now it has become half a hell.

From time to time, some warriors would rush into the houses of noble merchants and loot them. The warriors who were originally patron saints had turned into evil beasts that ate people without spitting out their bones.

And often they are familiar with the situation and can easily take away the valuables in the house before fleeing for their lives in a panic. If anyone dares to stop them, even the previous owner, they will kill them.

"Get out of here! You're looking for death!" Several warriors carrying gold and silver jewelry on their backs unexpectedly ran into Zhang Hu and his party who were preparing to enter the city.

There was almost no hesitation, "Bang! Bang! Bang!", a burst of white smoke, and after a burst of smoke, there were only a few dead people with wide-eyed eyes left on the road.

These gunshots also made the experience of half of Kobe City even worse. Many samurai stepped up their killing and robbery speed. They did not want to leave here empty.

It is this kind of greed that allows even one of them to succeed!

Seeing this situation, Zhang Hu immediately ordered his soldiers to block the four city gates. In his opinion, the entire Kobe City was now the property of the lord, how could he let a few petty thieves get their hands on it.

He took more than ten soldiers and began to eliminate these rebellious warriors.

"Bang bang bang!"

Neat gunshots burst out in Kobe Kamei. Zhang Hu basically cleaned up every household, trying to eliminate every troublemaker. As for those who could not be distinguished temporarily, they were all killed. He had no time to deal with them.

"Sir, there is a group of thieves gathered in the alley in front, and the rest of the city has been wiped out!"

Zhang Hu approvingly praised the soldiers who came to report, "Okay, destroy this group of guys, and I will give you credit when you get back."

The soldier was ecstatic, but did not forget his duty, and immediately took Chen Hu to the entrance of the alley.

Seeing the seven or eight Japanese samurai holding long knives in a defensive posture in the dark alley, Zhang Hu just thought of ordering the soldiers to shoot and kill them directly.

He simply took another look and saw a man in the crowd who was gorgeously dressed and wearing a silk mesh headdress.

Judging from his appearance, he is not an ordinary person. He seems to be a big official in Kobe City.

"Except for the last one, kill them all!"

For Zhang Hu, it was enough to leave one alive to find out the news. Following the order, the soldiers began to shoot.

One shot, two shots, three shots

With one sound after another, the Japanese samurai in the alley were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Ah! I will fight with you!"

The remaining warriors simply couldn't stand such endless torture. Rather than sit back and wait for death, they might as well give it a try and maybe survive. With this hope, two of the last three warriors picked up their long swords and rushed towards the entrance of the alley. out.

In order not to hurt the last person, Zhang Hu asked the soldiers to stop shooting, then pulled out the light steel waist knife and entered the alley.

In the narrow and dark alley, it was so dry and cold that people shivered, but Chen Hu was very relaxed at this time. He had not killed anyone for many days, and the long knife in his hand was already hungry and thirsty. It was time to eat meat, stretch his limbs, and take a stroll. go ahead.

There were almost no fancy moves. Zhang Hu saw the right moment and suddenly swung his long sword. The blade flashed blue and white in the dark corner. In the horrified eyes of the Japanese samurai, he cut off the long sword that they relied on to break through. knife.

Then the blade continued to move forward and successfully broke through the chest of the nearest warrior. Blood instantly flowed out and the warrior fell to the ground in pain.

Even so, the blade still moved forward, and finally landed in the center of another warrior's skull. The soft white road was suddenly exposed. Because the gap in the skull was stuck, Zhang Hu spent a lot of effort to pull it out. come out.

Such a blow directly overturned half of the skull, and a vomiting salty smell rushed straight to him.

Zhang Hu picked up his sleeves, covered his mouth and nose, and walked deeper into the alley.

In the end, only the executive and an unconscious samurai were left in the alley.

He murmured incoherently, raised his head and glanced at Zhang Hu, then picked up his long knife and slid it towards his neck.

Zhang Hu shook his head helplessly. He didn't think he was so scary, but he felt ashamed of such a warrior.

If the Japanese soldiers are like what they encountered today, it is estimated that they will change their masters soon.

"Tell me, who are you?"

Zhang Hu raised his long knife, put it against the senior official's throat, and said viciously.

Then he stepped forward and half squatted, and stepped on the body of the suicidal warrior. Looking at the senior official hiding in the depths, seeing his panic and fearful pupils, he felt very accomplished.

"No, he doesn't seem to be able to speak Chinese!"

Zhang Hu slapped his forehead in annoyance. Only then did he realize that the guy opposite was Japanese and didn't seem to understand what he was saying.

"It's all a waste of time. It's really unlucky for him."

Just when he was about to solve this problem with a knife, the senior official spoke.

"Sir, don't kill me, don't kill me."

"You can speak Chinese!"

Zhang Hu was shocked. He had not expected this.

In fact, the entire Japanese aristocracy strongly advocated Han culture before the industrial revolution. Most of the upper-class aristocrats were educated from an early age. They knew how to speak and write. If they were placed in the Ming Dynasty, if there were no other special features, Basically no one will recognize it.

As for those who say they are short, it is nonsense. They are the Japanese common class. They cannot eat meat and malnutrition will lead to short stature. However, the aristocratic class has no such restrictions and never misses a meal or a meal of meat. , no matter which country's nobles they are, they are the ones with the best genes.

Ichiro Sugimoto never thought that learning Chinese could save his life. God opened his eyes. When he became a minister of Kobe, he was basically a nobleman. Some of his officials advised him to learn more Chinese and write calligraphy.

At first, he didn't care, until at a banquet, everyone spoke Chinese, and he basically couldn't understand it, which made him lose face. From that day on, he found many teachers and studied every day.

But later he degenerated and began to enjoy himself. He no longer wanted to climb high and played his own way, but he did not forget this skill.

"I am Ichiro Sugimoto, a relative of the Tokugawa family, your distinguished lord. As long as you don't kill me, I will give you whatever you want. I have thirty thousand taels of silver at home, what do you think?"

Ichiro Sugimoto looked at Zhang Hu in front of him and stated his conditions. He believed that no one could resist the temptation of money.

What he said was indeed true, but to Zhang Hu, Sugimoto seemed naive.

Who would negotiate terms with a person who is about to die? Besides, the terms are within their reach.

"I'm sorry, Sugimoto-sama, I have to send you to hell!"

Zhang Hu's cold words made Sugimoto stunned. The fear of death made every pore on his body expand, and the secretion of body fluids in his mouth also accelerated.

Sugimoto kept swallowing, until the sixth time, he couldn't swallow anymore. He didn't know why, and thought it was over this time.

He closed his eyes and waited for his head to fall to the ground, but he still couldn't feel the pain of the blade cutting across his neck. The endless and empty waiting made him open his eyes curiously.

Zhang Hu was stroking his smooth chin, getting closer and looking at himself carefully.

what happend?

Sugimoto looked confused. He didn't know why. Could it be that the officer was tempted and wanted to ask for money?

"Are you Ichiro Sugimoto?"

Zhang Hu stood up, looked down at Sugimoto and asked.

"Yes, my lord, my money is here."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Hu locked him tightly with a strong pair of arms.

"Sir, what are you doing? I'm not that kind of person." Sugimoto was at a loss in panic and gibbered.

"Shut up, you idiot."

Zhang Hu angrily said that the reason why he did not kill him was because he knew his identity. This guy was the biggest contributor to their invasion of Kobe.

You said that such a "hero" could be killed with a sword. Naturally, you can't take advantage of him in this way.

Moreover, he was so arrogant and domineering before, but it made many fleet officers gnash their teeth. Now that he is caught, he has to be taken back and trained hard.

He handed Ichiro Sugimoto to his soldiers and at the same time told him: "Watch this guy carefully. This is a gift I will bring to the lord when I go back."

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