Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

"But speaking of which, Lord Marquis, Lord Gong, do you know?"

"These grandsons are simply beasts. The people of Japan can only grow rice now, and nothing else is allowed."

"After listening to what that kid Songqian said, I feel a little sympathetic towards them!"

"Those people were forced to grow rice, but they could seldom eat it themselves."

"In addition, the shogunate also prohibited them from buying alcohol and tea. Even if one of the couple drank tea or went out for a walk instead of working, once they were discovered, they would be sentenced to divorce."

Listening to Chonglou's story, everyone present widened their eyes at the same time.

Gao Yigong lost his temper and slammed the table and said, "Fuck him! If they grow rice but are not allowed to eat it, what do they eat?"

Ye Zi, who had just sat back in the corner, suddenly had his eyes red when he heard this.

"They can also eat some broken rice..."

"But my people can't even afford broken rice. They can only make a living by digging wild vegetables or secretly hunting."

"Those beasts would send people to guard the fields every time they harvested. We worked hard for several months, but in the end we didn't even get to taste the taste of rice!"

"More than that, to them, we are slaves!"

"My wife and daughter at home are always kept hidden. I dare not let them show up, because if they go out, I may never see them again..."

As he spoke, his body slid weakly off the chair, curled up, and burst into tears again.

Seeing this, Niu Jinxing shook his head and sighed with a look of pity.

"It's so brutal, so brutal!"

"My Lord, give the order..."

"Students cannot sit idly by and watch things like this."

Yuan Zongdi also stood up and said indignantly: "That's right, my lord, please give the order. I am willing to lead my troops to fight. Within half a year, we will be able to defeat the Japanese!"

As for Li Guo and Gao Yigong standing aside, they had the same expression.

They can't imagine it!

There is such a dark place in the world!

Even before they started the rebellion, their lives were countless times better than those of these common people!

At least, it’s your own land, you can plant whatever you want, and after paying taxes, you can support your family.

Even though life has been a little harder in recent years due to natural disasters, they are natural disasters after all, and are things that cannot be controlled by human power.

In the face of natural disasters, the imperial court also tried its best to provide disaster relief.

But the people here are facing man-made disasters!

Man-made disasters that lasted for decades or even hundreds of years...

"Generals, listen!"

Seeing that everyone had the same reaction, Li Zicheng shouted in a deep voice.

"Except for Li Guo's troops who will stay in Hokkaido, the entire army will move south and land in Mutsu and Dewa!"

"All the way south!"

"war!"

Chapter 552 Close combat, boarding!

A day later, the fleet set out again after replenishing its supplies.

At the southern end of Wofu, Zheng Zhilong was also not idle.

Kyushu Island, Satsuma Domain.

Two Japanese ships about fifty meters long were cruising near the coast. These were galleons that the Japanese copied from Spanish ships.

The displacement is about 80 tons, and it can be equipped with 12 guns.

However, the Japanese artillery technology at that time was so advanced that it was unbearable to watch. The range of the artillery was only about one kilometer.

Solid shells, accurate and random...

But even so, the Japanese soldiers on Galen's ship still felt extremely proud.

They even gave the two ships names.

One is named Sunrise and the other is named Daylight.

During the patrol, if they found any Japanese fishing at sea without permission, they would approach and knock them over.

Watching fishermen drowning in the sea due to shipwrecks seemed to have become a game for these Japanese soldiers to pass the time.

Kaiguchi Matsuko, as a retainer of the Satsuma Domain, led thirty samurai and one hundred foot soldiers, which were all the troops on the two galleons.

As usual, they came to an unnamed bay.

The seabed structure here is complex, and people often come here to fish secretly. Almost every time he comes here to patrol, he will catch a few fearless ones to make him happy.

Kaikou Songzi really enjoys the feeling of being superior to others.

Therefore, even though it was winter and the climate at sea was extremely cold and damp, he still knelt in the middle of the room, enjoying the service of the two Japanese women.

At this moment, an excited voice came from outside the door.

"Sir, someone is secretly fishing here again."

"Bombardment!"

Kaikou Songzi responded coldly.

Listening to the footsteps outside the door fading away, he reached out and touched a Japanese woman's face a few times.

"Did you hear me? I said, shelling..."

The Japanese woman was overjoyed upon hearing this and nodded heavily: "Hayi..."

"boom!"

A ball of fire spurted out from the side of the Sunrise, and a six-pound solid iron bullet was fired out, shaking the hull.

Kaikou Songzi in the mahjong room grinned almost at the same time.

"well!"

"Yoshi!"

"Ha ha ha ha......"

Just about seven or eight hundred meters ahead of the Sunrise, a fishing boat was dodging in a panic.

"boom!"

Another shelling.

But it was the Nikko that surrounded them from the other side.

Two fifty-meter-long galleons sandwiched the fishing boat, which was only a dozen meters long. The two ships took turns firing, continuously firing shells at the fishing boat.

Within thirty seconds, ten artillery pieces fired one after another.

That fishing boat also died in the northwest under the casual artillery fire of the Japanese soldiers.

As the cannon fire stopped, the sound of Kaikou Songzi was heard again in the mahjong room.

"Iku..."

"Iku..."

But at this moment, the voice that had come to report before sounded outside the door again.

"Sir, there is a fleet of Ming people!"

"Nani?"

Kaiguchi Matsuko frowned slightly, but her hand was still on the Japanese woman's head as she asked.

"Did you see clearly? Is it a merchant ship? Or a warship?"

The voice outside the door sounded a little panicked: "It's warships, lots and lots of warships!"

Hearing this, Kaikou Matsuko's previous moment of comfort suddenly disappeared. He pushed the Japanese woman away with force, walked to the window and looked outside.

He was almost scared to death at just one glance!

Hundreds of ships larger than the Galen are heading this way quickly!

"Retreat! Retreat, return to port!"

Kaikou Songzi's legs were trembling, and he ran towards the cabin door with bowed legs, shouting loudly.

The visitors were none other than Zheng Zhilong’s South China Sea Navy!

His flagship is a Fu ship.

Ever since he heard that Zhu Youxiao named the newly launched treasure ship Ao Guang, he changed the name of his own ship to Xuan Gui.

On the Black Turtle, Zheng Zhilong looked at the two Japanese ships in front of him with stern eyes.

"Order Yang Tiansheng to lead his men to rush over and get the boat back to Benbo!"

Then, on the main mast of the Black Turtle, a flag bearer pulled out a red flag from his waist and waved it in the air a few times.

Soon, more than a dozen shuttle boats rushed out from the team.

The shuttle boat is very small and can only accommodate four people, but it has a large sail that is disproportionate to the size of the boat!

With full sail, the ship moves as fast as a shuttle.

Therefore, whenever faced with tasks such as setting fire, sabotaging ships, transmitting intelligence, or boarding enemy ships, the shuttle boat became the first choice.

More than a dozen shuttle boats drew a dozen white waves on the sea and approached the Sunrise at a rapid speed.

When there were less than 500 meters left, they suddenly dispersed and surrounded from all directions.

"boom!"

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire.

It was the Sunrise that opened fire.

Yang Tiansheng stood on the shuttle boat, looking at the splashes caused by the shells, and kept giving orders to the helmsman to adjust the direction.

But a soldier beside him asked in confusion.

"Master Bai Hu, if you ask me, there is no need to be so cautious, right?"

"With their artillery skills, there is no way they can hurt us..."

Yang Tiansheng glared at him and said, "You know nothing!"

"When it comes to firing cannons, we're not afraid of hitting them accurately, we're afraid of missing them!"

"According to those scholars, getting a perfect score is not difficult. What is difficult is getting a zero score when the questions are all multiple-choice!"

"These guys don't even know where their shells will land, how can you be confident that you won't get hit by a shell suddenly?!"

The soldier shrank his neck and said nothing more, but just adjusted the rope on the eagle claw hook.

The gunfire from the Sunrise and Nikko continued, and shells fell around the shuttle ship, creating splashes of water several meters high.

Under Yang Tiansheng's command, the routes of these shuttle boats were always moving forward along the place where the water splashed.

Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps this approach was really effective. When they came close to the Sunrise, only one of the dozen or so shuttle boats had its sail hit by a cannonball.

The boat was fine, just a hole in the sail.

When the shuttle boat approached, the people on the Galen ship immediately put down the clapboard.

This thing is a huge wooden board with iron spikes on it. It is a weapon used for defense in close combat.

The cannons of the Sunrise stopped firing, and instead, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed to the bow and shot with bows and arrows.

Yang Tiansheng dodged an oncoming arrow, raised his flintlock and pulled the trigger at the Japanese soldiers.

"boom!"

Gunshots rang out and people fell.