My Daming New Empire

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he seemed to see a bright future.

That night, except for the soldiers who had already fought hard all day and returned to the ship to take a rest, most of the people could not sleep.

On a night of light rain, the city built 1000 years ago was howling in the flames.

Due to frequent earthquakes, most of the buildings in Dongying are made of wood, especially in the civilian areas, where countless low wooden houses are next to each other.

This place was originally the last barrier used by the Japanese to deal with the Ming army, but now, the raging fire has wiped out all of this.

When the fire ignited, General Nan Bo, who originally wanted to fight to the death with the Ming army, thought of running away for the first time.

Without the protection of the outer city, relying on the inner city here at Tianwang Temple alone, and losing the battlefield with Ming Dynasty, they have no chance at all.

Seeing the most prosperous city in Japan burning in the fire, he couldn't help but shed tears.

However, he himself didn't know who he was crying for, whether it was because of this thousand-year-old city, or for those people who had fled into the mountains and lost their homes.

A group of people hurried up the city wall. General Nanbo quickly wiped away the tears on his face and looked back.

Ashikaga Yoshinaka, who usually looks like a handsome scholar, was full of horror at this time. Looking at the blazing fire, he trembled as he spoke.

"General, Mingren is so ruthless that he burned the whole of Osaka... Now, we have no choice but to retreat!"

Nan Bo looked at him with a wry smile and said, "General...you are still a general when you return to Kyoto, but if I lose Osaka, what kind of general would I be?"

"The green hills are here, even if there is no firewood? General, as long as you have a thousand warriors and thousands of people under your command, even if you arrive in Kyoto, my brother will still use you."

Nan Bo sighed: "This time the Ming army is attacking, and it is said that the ambitious emperor's grandson is leading the army. Do you think their goal is only Osaka? If their goal is Kyoto, where should they flee?"

Ashikaga Yoshinori groaned, and said, "They dare not...the longer the battle line is drawn, the more unfavorable it will be for them."

Nan Bo shook his head and said, "This afternoon, Daming has seized the river boats hidden [-] miles upstream. With these boats, they can reach the capital directly against the current. Excuse me, how can we deal with Daming's firearms? "

Ashikaga Yoshinaka had just heard the news, and at this moment he couldn't care less about complaining about Nanba's closure of the news, and was frightened.

Kyoto is only eighty miles away from the sea, if Daming really attacks Kyoto, no amount of people can resist Daming's firearms.

At this moment, Ashikaga Yoshinori didn't want to escape back to Kyoto, but wanted to find a mountain forest to hide.

However, this idea was dismissed later. When he returned to Kyoto, he was still the younger brother of the fourth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate. After fleeing into the mountains, he was nothing.

Seeing his distraught appearance, Nan Changchang sighed and said, "Let's retreat, if it's too late, the fire will burn, and you won't be able to escape even if you want to."

Although the light rain in the sky could not prevent the fire from burning, it did have a huge impact on Daming's combat effectiveness.

Although most of Ming's firearms have been changed from matchlock guns to flintlock guns, the rainproof effect of the gunpowder cap is not good. This kind of rain can easily cause the muskets to fail to fire, weakening more than half of the combat effectiveness.

So Daming originally planned to ambush thousands of people to block the retreat of the Japanese, but now he had to send nearly 3 people.

And on this kind of rainy night, Zhu Zhanji and the others were unwilling to suffer huge losses just because they killed a little more people, so even if they intercepted, they mainly focused on harassment.

The purpose of this is not to kill, but to prevent the opponent from escaping with the goods.

There are battles to be fought and battles to be won.Money has to be made, and a lot of money has to be made.

Zhu Zhanji will not do things that earn face and lose face.

For the Japanese, the night of the first day of May in the 23rd year of Yingyong was the most tragic night in the history of Dongying.

A raging fire has turned the largest city with a history of 1000 years into ruins.Except for the inner city, which was protected by the city wall, the whole city was almost reduced to ashes.

The guardian of the city, the general Nan Bo, was shot on the way to escape. Although he was only shot in the arm at the time, the lead bullet and the rain made him develop a high fever.

Only four days later, he died in the forest of Mt. Wakakusa in Nara due to contracting wind evil.

When he died, there were less than a thousand of his more than 1000 warriors and thousands of people.

Afterwards, some of these hundreds of people were gathered by other daimyos and generals, but most of them fled further, unwilling to face the vicious Ming people again.

And on the fifth day of May, a 20-meter-high giant Jingguan was built on the banks of the Yodo River.The capital cost more than [-] yuan just for the head, and within a few months, the rancid smell did not dissipate.

A large amount of materials that were not transported out of Osaka were originally taken into the inner city by Nanbo, intending to become materials for resisting the Ming army.

He originally thought that the fire would wipe everything out, but the light rain and the city wall stopped the fire, allowing Da Ming to obtain countless supplies.

This is the material distribution center of the entire Japan. After the Ming soldiers blocked the sea area, only a small part of the material was transported out by land.

In the end, Mingren was cheap.

Osaka is not only the material distribution center of Japan, but also the gateway of Kyoto.Because of the wealth and the most powerful samurai group in Japan, no one thought that the city would be completely burned down in just two days.

This kind of ending also made countless generals and daimyos terrified. They didn't know how to fight against Ming's firearms.

They also have firecrackers, but they are difficult to manufacture. It takes a skilled blacksmith three to five days to make a barrel, and it is easy to explode.

What they don't know is that the steel produced in Japan has a high carbon content, and that kind of Japanese sword needs to be tempered, and the barrel of the gun needs to be strong, and it also needs to be decarbonized.

The entire Japan fell into a sense of powerlessness, because they had no way to deal with Daming's firearms at all.

Ashikaga Yoshichi felt regretful at this time, regretting that he did not continue to follow his father's old path and cooperate with Daming.

But he has nothing to do, because his father finally wants his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshinori to inherit the position of general, so he can only win over a group of people who are opposed to his father to consolidate power.

And these people, most of them are against Daming.

When Yoshinori Ashikaga fled back to Kyoto, he was shocked to find that Kyoto, which was originally quiet and peaceful, had become chaotic before Mingren called.

On the day when the Ming Fleet appeared in the waters of Osaka, eighty miles away in Kyoto, Kitayama-in Hino Yasuko, in the name of his own son Ashikaga Yoshiko, joined hands with Ashikaga Mitaka to start a war against his stepson and brother-in-law Ashikaga Yoshichi.

The Ashikaga family has a deep relationship with the Hino family, and it can even be said to be a bunch of confused accounts.

Just talking about the two generations today, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu first married his aunt Hino Yeko, and then married his niece Hino Yasuko who was supposed to become the emperor's concubine.

However, Yasuko Hino did not marry Emperor Komatsu, but married her father Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and her younger sister Hino Eiko married her son Ashikaga Yoshichi.

So Hino Yasuko and Ashikaga Yoshichi are both mother and son and brother-in-law, and her son Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is Ashikaga Yoshichi's younger brother and elder.

Yasuko Hino was ambitious, and was always unwilling to let his concubine Ashikaga Yoshichi inherit the general position. After receiving the support of Ming Dynasty, he agreed to start the war at the same time on the [-]th day of May and April.

Ashikaga Yoshichi was extremely annoyed at this time. The blockade of Ming Dynasty prevented sea ships from the island country of Dongying from leaving the port, which caused difficulties in transportation.

Dongying is mountainous, and the cost of transporting it by land is too high.

He hoarded a large army in the Nagasaki area, but he did not expect that the Ming Fleet did not go to Nagasaki, but directly attacked Osaka.

And the rebellion of Yasuko Hino and his uncle Ashikaga Mantaka almost brought the operation of Kyoto to a standstill.

Although Kyoto was modeled after Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, it is also the largest city in Japan, but only nobles and wealthy businessmen are allowed to live here, so the population is only a little over [-].