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

"I will lead the army to take the first step, Qu Wan, you ask the Japanese pirates behind to speed up for me." Zhao Dahai, who was riding a mule and horse, really couldn't stand the dwarfs of these marching mothers, and couldn't help but yell, "If we don't do it before dark If they can’t get to Toyooka City, I won’t teach them a lesson.”

Qu Wan was also constantly complaining about these Fuso Ashigaru who had just been forcibly recruited.

A soldier who lacks training cannot go to the battlefield at all, let alone these farmers who have just made weapons.

A sharpened bamboo spear in each hand was the best equipment the Saga family could provide to the Ashigaru. It was incomparable to the steel knives in the hands of the Shuntian camp soldiers. As for the muskets, these country bumpkins had never seen them before.

Under Qu Wan's constant urging, the 500 ashigaru who came to help finally slowly picked up the speed, but even so, they will not arrive at Toyooka Castle until noon tomorrow at the earliest.

"Brothers, speed up a little. You can rest when you get to Toyooka City." Qu Wan kept motivating the 500 ashigaru with words.

"Sir, we really can't stand it anymore. Can you take a break? Let us rest for a while." At this time, Ashigaru bumped to the side of the road holding his waist, and sat down with his butt on the ground.

Before Qu Wan could speak, he stopped the ashigaru behind him.

"Your Excellency Nobuo, we have to go to Toyooka tonight, so it's better not to embarrass Mr. Zhao." Qu Wan knew this person, Nobuo Oyama, a retainer of the Saga family. The two were on the same level, and it was not easy to shout at them. .

"What are you talking about? When the general issued the military order that day, I was there." Nobuo Koyama glanced at Qu Wan with disdain, then took a bottle of wine from the young maid next to him, and started drinking "Gulu Gulu" .

"Wonderful! Your drinks in Keelung are really good, much better than the sake at home."

Nobuo Koyama was talking to himself, completely unaware of the murderous intent in Qu Wan's eyes.

He had to bring a maid with him when he went on an expedition. He was like a waste who failed to achieve anything but failed. I didn't know how he could be invited to help out at Saga's house.

"Go and tell Zhao Ying that Nobuo-sama is tired and doesn't want to leave."

Seeing Qu Wan sending someone to notify Zhao Dahai, Xiaoshan Nobuo also panicked a little. He pushed away the maid beside him and walked to Qu Wan.

"Master Qu, it doesn't have to be like this. Master Zhao wants to go on his way, so just let him go first. Let's go slowly. I guarantee that we will arrive with our army tomorrow."

Nobuo Koyama smiled and handed the jug to Qu Wan's hand, but found that he didn't accept this at all.

"That's what Zhaoying's military order is. If you can't do it," Qu Wan snorted coldly, "I don't need to tell you what the military order is."

You dare to get close to me, you are wishful thinking, he really looks down on Fuso men.

Why is it that the Fusang woman is as gentle as water and obedient, but this man is a loser and completely useless.

"Huh, I'm the son-in-law of the Saga family. Even if Mr. Zhao comes here, he can't do anything to me." Seeing Qu Wan not eating the toast, Nobuo Koyama immediately showed off his "noble status."

"Furthermore, the general's military order yesterday ordered us to arrive at Toyooka Castle tomorrow. It's reasonable for me, so there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Nobuo Koyama raised his head proudly, immediately attracting a burst of admiration from the ashigaru behind him.

"The foreign military orders will be ignored!" Suddenly, a loud roar came from the woods in the mountains.

"Those who disobey military orders will die!"

In an instant, Zhao Dahai led a dozen cavalrymen to rush out of the forest and stopped in front of Nobuo Koyama. Before he could defend himself, the sword flashed and his head was cut off immediately.

When the head fell to the ground, Nobuo Koyama's eyes were filled with surprise and disbelief.

Before the ashigaru could react, Zhao Dahai raised the butcher knife towards them again.

"Anyone who cannot catch up with the troops will be killed."

The cold military orders resounded throughout the forest like the god of death. As long as there were those who did not move forward vigorously, the cavalry's steel swords would fall on their heads.

No matter how hard they begged for mercy, the butcher's knife would not stop.

It wasn't until they caught up with the Shuntian camp in front that Zhao Dahai rode away.

Qu Wan was left to lead the group of ashigaru, "What's your name?", after he noticed a young man who was the fastest runner.

"Sir, my name is Dalang Dalang, from Xiachuan, and I live here."

"Wait a minute." Qu Wan immediately interrupted the guy who wanted to chatter and assigned him a task to count how many people were left.

After a while, Da Lang replied, "151 people."

Be good!

Lao Zhao is really cold-blooded. Before the war started, two-thirds of these Fuso Ashigaru died, and they died at the hands of his own people.

"Don't be too sad. As long as you keep going, Mr. Zhao won't kill anyone again." Qu Wan put his hand on Paddy's shoulder and persuaded him kindly.

"Sir, I'm not sad at all. Those of us who were born into peasant families are born to work hard. We don't have much ability, we just have good physical strength."

To his surprise, Paddy was not sad but happy about the dead people. He opened his trousers and patted his strong thighs, "Those who died were all thugs raised by the hill. They usually acted arrogantly, but they can We suffered a lot and they deserved to die."

Qu Wan didn't expect that the anger in Da Tian's heart was so great, and he couldn't help but think of a sentence he learned in the Army Academy.

"It's not about being too big to be resentful, it's about being afraid of others. If you are carrying a boat and overturning it, you should be very cautious."

Nobuo Koyama died but no one stood up to avenge him, which shows the evil he did and the resentment he received.

Today Qu Wancai really understood.

After regaining consciousness, he looked at the rice fields again. It seemed that this young man had his own shadow, "Serve the general well, and glory and wealth will be yours in the future."

"Hai!" Inada straightened his body and gave a standard army salute.

Just when they were about to arrive at Toyooka Castle that night, the sentinel sent out reported back that Toyooka Castle had been captured by the Kumamoto family.

"What is captured? This is obviously the surrender of the whole city!" At the temporary meeting of the camp next to the campfire, Zhao Dahai looked into the distance with great disappointment. "If it was captured, how could there be no one who could escape to deliver the message?"

The Fuso Japs are indeed useless!

After a day's rush march and it was getting late, it was impossible to recapture Fenggang City. Zhao Dahai immediately ordered the garrison to rest and fight again tomorrow.

The next day, early morning.

"Chief of the Keelung Rebellion Pioneer Battalion." A flag with a red gold background fluttered provocatively in Kumamoto's monocular.

Then what he saw was a huge Qin character, like a huge wedge, nailed into his eyes.

On the land five miles outside the city, more than a thousand soldiers were constantly changing their formations, or practicing the weapons in their hands, or filling sandbags or earthbags under the sound of the captain's bronze whistle.

"Who are Keelung's troops on the opposite side? Who is the commander?" Kumamoto asked casually, holding the eight-pound bronze cannon he had recently bought from the Dutch in his hand.

One of Kumamoto's confidants looked around, and with a proud expression began to report the military situation on the other side to Kumamoto in front of his colleagues.

"Reporting to the head of the family, according to the flags and careful investigation, the soldiers and horses on the opposite side are the soldiers and horses of the third battalion of Shuntian Camp. They are real elites of the direct lineage and should not be underestimated. There are also three hundred so-called baggage soldiers who do things such as carrying food and grass, The work of building bridges and repairing roads is just some hard work. In addition, there is a team of 300 people from the Saga family. The Shuntian camp in Keelung is a direct descendant, so they all use firearms and wear bamboo armor. The ashigaru has a pair of bamboo spears and no helmet or armor."

"A thousand iron cannons!"

Kumamoto and the surrounding brigades couldn't help but take a breath, with very complicated expressions in their eyes, including envy, greed, and fear.

"In addition, according to detailed observation, the troops are organized according to Jia, team and battalion. There are twelve people in each Jia, the commander of Jia and the commander of subordinate Jia. There are ten soldiers. One team of ten Jia, one hundred and ten people, including the team Officers, guards, flags and drums, cooks, etc. Then there are ten teams of one battalion, more than a thousand people."

"Did you see the big tube?"

"not yet."

Upon hearing the news, most of Kumamoto's worries disappeared instantly.

"Send down our bamboo armor, swords and guns!" Kumamoto looked at the subordinates in front of him. "Everyone must concentrate. This time the enemies are not farmers in the fields. They are all solid warriors."

As the head of the Kumamoto family, his ambition far exceeds his status, which is why he asked the shogun for help and volunteered to take the front line.

Use this opportunity to seize your strength and provide gun support for his ambitions!

The opportunity and strength were seized by him as he wished!

As long as he can hold off the Keelung Army this time, his mission will be completed.

It would be better if they could be annihilated. Kumamoto had such a plan when he led his army on the expedition. It was not in vain that he sent dozens of boxes of gold and silver to the lord of Toyooka Castle.

Thinking of the appearance of the Lord of Toyooka Castle when he was sent to the water prison, Kumamoto couldn't help but feel happy in his heart.

Thanks to the stupid and money-grubbing guy, he was able to enter the city with a large army without any effort.

With the favorable geographical location, he can remain invincible.

Ten meters away from Toyooka Castle, there are hundreds of ragged farmers, all of whom were driven here by the Kumamoto family.

Standing tiredly outside the city, he used a simple ramming hammer to drive the wooden piles into the mud. Then, he used a knife and ax to sharpen the flat ends of the wooden piles as an obstacle to the Keelung army's advance. .

If Kumamoto's ears were long enough and there was no noise from the waving flags, he should be able to hear the whispered curses and discussions of the Fuso people who were forcibly conquered by him.

"Brother Hirata, if the enemy comes, will we be sent out to die?" Many people gathered together and looked at the tallest man among them and asked.

Takeji Hirata looked around and saw that the several fierce-looking Kumamoto supervisors carrying bamboo strips were far away, and then he whispered, "I heard that the Saga family has taken refuge with the general, the general of Keelung. "

Takeji Hirata took the trouble to explain to everyone where Keelung was, and how the general in Keelung was so powerful and powerful.

"If you believe me, when the army comes from the opposite side, just follow me and squat on the ground, hold your head with your hands, and then wait for the army to register your household registration book for you. Then you can divide the fields, work in the factory, and exchange money to buy those things. Salt and other good stuff!”

"Brother Hirata, we are all Fuso people, but the Han people call them Japanese pirates! How can they treat us so well?"

Hirata Takeji didn't know if these news were false, but Haikou had boasted about it, so if he changed his story now.

I don’t want the name of the Hirata Ninja Family anymore!

"Don't worry! My family is a ninja family, so I naturally know a lot more than you do. Just follow me!"

While the castle was making its own little plans, Kumamoto on the wall didn't stop either.

"Do you have enough gunpowder in the barrel? And what's the effect?"

"Master, the gunpowder can be used to fire the barrel more than thirty times, and the longest range can reach the woods." The gunner who answered was a half-wit and didn't know how to count, so he had to point to the woods in the distance to indicate the distance.

"So far?!" Kumamoto was shocked.

The surrounding retainers were also overjoyed and started talking about it.

Kumamoto-o looked at such a large bronze barrel affectionately, and he was already thinking that when this battle was over, he would buy more cannons from the Dutch.

Not using such a sharp weapon is really short-sighted.

"You are all members of the Kumamoto family. You must do your best in this battle. If you can defeat the approaching enemy, whether it is gold and silver treasures, maids from the feudal lords, or promotion to the nobility, the Kumamoto family will definitely not treat you badly."

As soon as these words came out, it was like pouring a ladle of cold water into a hot oil pan, instantly igniting the atmosphere of the whole place.

"Kumamoto wins!"

Just when everyone was cheering and cheering, as if celebrating victory, a discordant voice sounded from beside everyone.

"Master Kumamoto, it is said that Keelung's troops have sharp weapons and tough soldiers. It's better to be careful."

Faced with the discordant voice, someone from the Kumamoto family immediately jumped out and scolded the person who made the discordant opinion: "Who are you? Is it your turn to speak here?"

"You have the right to speak here." Kumamoto roared, instantly making the people around him feel as cold as ice.

Then he unexpectedly gave the retainer who had just jumped out a big slap in the face, and angrily said: "This is the shogunate's enshrinement, Mr. Matsudaira Nobutsuna. When will it be your turn to point fingers?"

When the retainers heard that they were from the shogunate, they immediately curled up.

Kumamoto didn't intend to let him go, and kicked him one after another, "Bagaya deer, Bagaya deer."

Matsudaira Nobutsuna seemed to have noticed that his reminder just now made the future guardian of Kyushu feel uncomfortable, and he was criticizing him.

"Master Kumamoto, I have also delivered the general's military orders, so I won't be nagging you here." Matsudaira Nobutsuna thanked him and left, "I hope you will win and your military fortune will last forever."

"Hahaha! Thanks for Nobutsuna's kind words, I will definitely defeat the enemy in this battle." Hearing others complimenting him, Kumamoto laughed unconsciously, and he looked completely different from the frosty face before. .

The forest wind blew, bringing the singing voice from the opposite side over. Although it was not clear, the majestic meaning in the singing was clearly clear.

“If ten thousand people unite as one, Mount Tai can be shaken!

Only loyalty and righteousness come, and angry bullfighting.

The Lord will kiss me better than a parent;

If you violate military orders, you will not be free.

The orders are clear, the rewards and punishments are communicated,

You are going through fire and water, do you dare to stay later? "

The singing, accompanied by the forest wind, made Kumamoto feel a little chilly, and he tightened his cloak.

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