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The emperor of this era in Japan is Emperor Meisho, who is now just a nine-year-old girl named Okiko. She is the daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and the niece of Tokugawa Iemitsu. Her mother is Tokugawa Kazuko of the Tokugawa family.
Emperor Go-Mizunoo was still alive at this time and was in his prime. Dissatisfied with the Tokugawa family's tyranny and having a very strained relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate, he passed the throne to his seven-year-old daughter Okiko, who became Emperor Meisho.
When Tang Tong's army arrived, Emperor Meisho, a little girl who knew nothing about anything, felt scared and didn't know what to do. However, Empress Mizuoio became more active. On the one hand, he was afraid that the Ming army would occupy the place after arriving, and on the other hand, he hoped that the Ming army could destroy the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo.
Edo began to be built during the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and it has not been fully completed yet. However, the main part of the city wall has been built. Tang Tong did not bring any siege equipment with him this time. Seeing this, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had some military knowledge, was relieved. But he didn't know that Tang Tong did not intend to use his own people to attack the walls of Edo, but instead sent the Japanese auxiliary army and 30,000 Japanese laborers to plunder around Edo in order to get the military funds for this expedition.
Zhong Ping Shui Jin is a young man who just turned eighteen this year. He used to be a person from a poor mountain village. A month ago, a man from his village made a fortune outside and came back, making the whole village envious. Everyone gathered around that man to listen to his bragging, and only then did they know that there was a Xiaocang City about a hundred miles away from their village. From that man's words, Xiaocang City was simply a place full of gold. In order to get rich, Zhong Ping Shui Jin and some other young people from the village followed that man to Xiaocang City and became laborers, earning 100 kilograms of grain every month.
This time, the owner of Kokura Castle, Mr. Tang from the Ming Dynasty, said he would attack Edo and let the Tokugawa family return the power to the great Emperor Meisho. Nakahira Mizutsu didn't know whether this was a good thing or not. He heard from his elders in the same village that as long as he followed Mr. Tang from the Ming Dynasty, he would get rich, and he could return to the village with a lot of money and food and find a beautiful woman to be his wife.
Zhongping Shuijin was eighteen years old and should have married a woman long ago, but because he was poor, no one married him until he was eighteen. So, in order to marry a woman in the future, Zhongping Shuijin decided in his heart that he must follow Lord Tang and become a rich man like his predecessor.
㱗Under the leadership of the village elder, more than a hundred people including Zhong Ping Shuijin carried a flag of an unknown foreign country and rushed into a small village with more than three hundred people.㱗Under Zhong Ping Shuijin's admiring gaze, the village elder waved the big knife in his hand and rushed in first, chopping down three people like chopping vegetables and melons.
Encouraged, Zhongping Shuijin also rushed forward and stabbed down an old man who had no time to escape. The blood splattered all over Zhongping Shuijin, making his heart tremble. He felt a little scared and a little excited. Zhongping Shuijin licked the blood splattered on his lips. It was a little salty, and seemed to taste good.
At this time, the elder in the village roared loudly, waking Zhongping Shuijin up. Seeing that everyone was killing people and snatching things from the dead, Zhongping Shuijin's eyes turned red, and he waved the knife in his hand and rushed forward. After Zhongping Shuijin killed three more people, Zhongping Shuijin kicked open the door of a house. There was a half-grown boy and a teenage woman inside. She seemed to be good-looking. At least for Zhongping Shuijin, who had never touched a woman, this woman was very tempting. Zhongping Shuijin didn't say anything, and killed the half-grown boy with a knife, and then pounced on the woman.
A few minutes later, Zhongping Shuijin completed his first feat and felt that there was nothing more wonderful in the world. Since Lord Tang had stipulated that women and girls under the age of 30 could not be killed, if there were beautiful women, especially beautiful virgins, who were offered, there would be a reward, so Zhongping Shuijin found a rope to tie up the woman, because even if Lord Tang did not accept her, according to Lord Tang's regulations, this woman would be his, Zhongping Shuijin's, property in the future.
Zhong Ping Shui Jin walked out of the house and saw that other people had already tied up those women under the age of 30 and brought them to the open space. Those girls were all dressed neatly and no one had touched their bodies. According to the elder in the village, these were all virgins. If they were handed over to Lord Tang, they would get a high reward. Therefore, for the sake of their own silver and food, these girls could not be touched.
After searching all the houses for their belongings and leaving only what was left for the victims, they divided the belongings among themselves, set fire to the houses, and headed towards another village.
On the way, Zhongping Shuijin and his men ran into another group of people. Those people attacked a larger village and got more property and women, which made Zhongping Shuijin and his men envious. They told themselves that they must find a larger village to attack later. However, the larger the village, the stronger the resistance they encountered. So the two groups decided to unite and find a larger village to attack. In this way, after Zhongping Shuijin and his men attacked several villages, they found a small town.
There were more than a dozen groups of people who arrived before Nakahira Mizujin and his group on all four sides of the small town. Everyone reported the number of their team and finally recommended an experienced senior to be the commander. Everyone worked together to attack the small town.
In Japan, ordinary villages do not have much wealth. Nakahira Mizutsu and his men have been busy for several days but have not obtained much. For example, Nakahira Mizutsu, the most valuable things he has now are a few women. If he wants to really get wealth, he can only attack the towns.
The cities of Japan were not like those of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, even a small county town had city walls. The small town they encountered now, like the one in Nakahira Mizutsu, also had city walls, but they were short and thin. It was the territory of a daimyo under the Tokugawa shogunate. It was a small foreign kingdom that was completely dependent on the Tokugawa shogunate and had only a hundred symbolic samurai under its command.
Although the daimyo did not mobilize all the people in the city to defend it, Nakahira Mizuki and his men had a steady stream of reinforcements, so it only took them half a day to break through the small city. Afterwards, they rushed into the city and ravaged the small city like a raging flood. For a while, the city was full of corpses and the ground was covered with blood.
Nakahira Mizutsu and a few fast runners were the first to rush to the daimyo's mansion. At this time, the daimyo and his men had already died on the edge of the city wall. There was no adult man in the mansion. Amid the screams of a group of women, Nakahira Mizutsu and the others who came with him had their eyes lit up, thinking that the women in this noble lord's family were really good-looking, and each one of them was beautiful.
Without saying a word, the few of them killed the half-grown boys and started to tie people up. While tying them up, they thought to themselves that they had made a fortune this time. They would definitely get a lot of rewards if they presented the money to Lord Tang. After tying up the people, many more people came from behind and started to search the rooms for valuables. These people who had never seen the world thought that everything was a good thing when they came here, even a stool was not spared. In fact, this daimyo did not have much wealth, but he had a lot more things than ordinary people's homes. In the eyes of Hirasuzu, he really made a fortune this time.
After seven or eight days, these Japanese auxiliary troops and Japanese laborers were no longer satisfied with attacking small towns. Their appetites grew bigger and bigger. They began to consciously gather from the original teams of a hundred people to attack larger cities, causing cities not far from Edo to be captured one after another. The Japanese auxiliary troops no longer burned and killed those small villages without oil and water, but drove the people in these small villages to attack the cities for them to reduce casualties in their own team. Later, they actually gathered a team of more than 100,000 people. This was something that Tang Tong had not expected at first. As the commander of this team, Yagyu Saburo was very sensible and gave the military power of this team to Tang Tong, which was highly praised by Tang Tong.
Those cities that had not yet been conquered also learned their lesson at this time. They took the initiative to send people to express their sincerity in surrendering to Tang Tong and took the initiative to offer money and beautiful women. Later, Emperor Mizuooo saw this fierce offensive and after repeated consideration, he also sent his trusted subordinates to negotiate with Tang Tong.
Not to mention how the Japanese allied troops wreaked havoc around Edo Castle, leaving only Tang Tong's 3,000 soldiers outside the castle. Tokugawa Iemitsu even sent troops to test Tang Tong and his men the next day, but none of the 10,000 elite samurai of the shogunate who rushed out of the city survived, forcing Tokugawa Iemitsu to retreat into Edo Castle and never dare to come out again.
When it comes to fighting on land, facing the 3,000 well-trained soldiers under Tang Tong, even if Tokugawa Iemitsu sent out his 50,000 elite troops plus tens of thousands of temporarily recruited soldiers, he would only end up with the annihilation of his entire army. After all, in terms of combat effectiveness, the Japanese army cannot be compared with the border troops of the Ming Dynasty. It is only slightly stronger than the untrained soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. The border troops of the Ming Dynasty, with more than 100,000 people, cannot defeat the tens of thousands of Jiannu. The 3,000 elite troops of the Jiannu are definitely no match for the 3,000 people under Tang Tong on the front battlefield. Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu sent out 10,000 men, but they were only there to deliver food.
More than ten days later, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not receive his reinforcements, but Tang Tong received the envoy of Emperor Go-Mizunoo, a man in his forties. Tang Tong was somewhat surprised by his identity.
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