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"My lord, what's the matter with you?"

The other side was still talking about the heroic deeds of Jia Fei Ji like that, and Mao Liying suddenly realized that Mao Jue's face seemed not very good, and she immediately asked with concern.

Still in the collapse of image, Mao Jue waved his hand weakly.

"Oh, it's nothing, it should be Le'er's tea, it's too bad to drink!"

The war that shook Edo for a month finally came to an end when the sun slanted in the afternoon. Although there was no setting sun like blood, it was devastated, and the groaning warriors were carried on stretchers one after another. It goes without saying.

Mao Jue kept his word, not a single shell landed in the inner city of Edo, but Tsukushima, the bustling harbor mooring, was completely turned into a piece of scorched earth, and even the residents on it, except for the landmines laid for Mao Jue last night, were spared. In addition to the traitors of the shogunate, more than 8000 people, except the old and the weak, were all taken away. Moreover, the shogunate army, which was exposed to the artillery fire without any cover, killed at least 2000 elite soldiers and injured even more. Countless.

The majesty of the Tokugawa shogunate was completely wiped by the samurai from Ming Dynasty, or it was the kind that stomped on both feet after being wiped.

The only lucky thing is that this time Aoyama Kosunari completed Matsudaira Nobuzuna's strategy, and all that was lost was the power of the Date family, a daimyo in the northeast. The Dongjiang Fleet slowly disappeared into the ocean, and Aoyama Yukunari, who came to the battlefield in person, still had lingering fears and watched tremblingly. After a long time, his withered lips slowly squirmed.

"Mao Jue-jun, I hope this time, I will never see you again!"

Chapter 245. New Atmosphere

The No.1 global travel is Napoleon, and the No.1 travel around Wajima should be Mao Jue. After all, Hokkaido is still barren these days. The nobles in Kyoto lazily nest at home and worship Buddha. He had never seen other boats around the Beibu Gulf, and after coming out of Edo Bay, he went south again, bypassing Shikoku Island, and finally ran back to Kyushu.

Along the way, Mao Jue resisted the urge to plunder Kansai again, and ran back directly. On the one hand, his fleet was warships, and all the transport ships were in Li Shanhai's hands. If he robbed them, he wouldn't be able to take much with him. , On the other hand, he also has a different goal in Japan, it is no longer the Viking pirate mode of grabbing and leaving, but the Viking conquest mode of conquering the world, so Amakusa Tokisada is still useful.

After all, it was a rebel army organized temporarily. Facing the elite 12 shogunate army to take out the Shimadzu family and the Nabeshima family's samurai group, Shimabara Kazuki's advantage disappeared completely at the beginning, and the momentum was not good. However, the East China Sea pirates turned around and left, which made things worse. They suffered several consecutive defeats, and finally the rebels were blocked back to Shimabara Castle.

The war was extremely tragic. The cross flag on the top of the city was burnt out with two holes. The low city wall experienced a fire and was devastated by iron cannons. The corpses above and below the city had accumulated a thick layer.

However, in the Shimabara Rebellion in history, not only was there no support, but the Catholic Portuguese of Nagasaki Castle, which Amakusa Shiro relied on as an ally, also sent warships to bombard Shimabara Castle, cutting off the hope of the believers of Kirichitan, but in this time and space, Amakusa Zhen has a powerful ally.

Sixty sailing battleships appeared outside Shimabara City, which was absolutely shocking to the shogunate army that Xie had seen before. Many samurai watched the behemoth slowly appear in front of their eyes in dumbfounded.

The Shimadzu family and the Nabeshima family samurai, who had seen the horror of firepower, smeared oil on the soles of their feet and retreated directly. Seeing that there was an extra hole in the encirclement, the rebels were about to run away, and the distraught Governor Sokei Tokugawa came up and insisted on giving the hole away. plug up.

It's a pity that he doesn't know this theorem. At the seaside, Mao Jue is now invincible.Tokugawa Zongqing was indeed prepared. More than 200 large cannons were set in front, and the four bow and arrow phalanxes shot a spectacular rain of arrows into the sea. Then, in the amazement of the officers of the Mao family in Tieyi Town, more than 1000 cannons Fired.

Mao Jue didn't know exactly how many shogunate troops were killed by the artillery fire. Anyway, in the next day, Tokugawa Zongqing never launched a decent attack again. The [-] Japanese saw that there were less than [-] remaining, including The Shimabara rebels, old and weak, women and children, retreated to the sea, and then threw them an empty Shimabara Castle.

However, they were rescued, but Mao Jue didn't intend to take these people to Dongjiang. After all, he and Amakusa Shizhen were just allies. The Catholic Chechidan warriors neither obeyed his orders, nor did Mao Jue have any interest in commanding them. , It is not worth raising [-] Japanese people in vain.

So the fleet headed south again, to a place not far from Wa Kingdom.

Ryukyu!

At this time, the Ryukyu Kingdom had not yet been occupied by the Shimadzu family, and became Okinawa Island of the Wa Kingdom. The lord was still a subject of the Ming Dynasty, and he was still the kind who had not been able to pay tribute for many years. Seeing the Mao Jue fleet was like seeing the organization.

However, after learning that Mao Jue was going to leave 10 Japanese in Ryukyu, the Ryukyu king and his ministers were all dumbfounded. The population of the Ryukyu Kingdom is less than [-]. If he was asked to raise [-] Japanese traitors, he might be attacked at any time. The retaliatory attack on the Japanese country caused all the Ryukyu nobles to complain.

But in a small country that even pirates are afraid of, Mao Jue didn't give him face at all, and didn't even give him a chance to refuse. He left [-] shi of rice, threw Amakusa Shizhen and the others overboard, turned around and left.

Even though they were defeated soldiers, the cruel war also honed the combat effectiveness of the Shimabara rebels. Thousands of Japanese samurai carrying Japanese swords and Japanese guns and wearing bloody battle armor stood there. The Ryukyu people are obediently divided Get out a piece of land to house them.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Mao Jue. On April [-]th, Mao Jue, who made a big circle, returned to the Noto Peninsula.

At this time, Li Shanhai had already retreated with his left hand.

"Oh, General Xiao Mao, I have worked hard all the way, I have been worrying about the general for more than a month, and I am very relieved to see that the general is safe!"

On this side, the fleet docked, and Mao Jue had just disembarked. The red-faced Li Shanhai was already an old chrysanthemum with a smile on his face. It is the same as before a hemorrhoid operation and after a hemorrhoid operation.

No wonder the old guy is excited, look at the port, the buckets are full of grain, and even rice is spilled out, although those Japanese cloths are not as valuable as silk, but these days, clothes are not as full of avenues as later generations Yes, everyone has a big wardrobe, as long as it is cloth, it can be sold at a high price.

In addition, there are ukiyo-e, fans, boxes, screens, knives, and armor. This time Mao Jue attracted half of the troops in the Kanto region like a magnet. The front limit of the soldiers hit the vicinity of Kyoto, and the looted area was as high as sixty-seven million stone if calculated according to the stone height of the Wa Kingdom.

In the last Wanli Korean War, the Japanese army under Toyotomi Hideyoshi stole a lot of wealth from Lee's North Korea. This looting is not only as simple as harvesting, but also gives the old guy a sense of revenge. No wonder Li Shanhai, an old bastard, could hardly keep his mouth shut.

To be honest, Mao Jue was also taken aback when he got off the ship. The port was so piled up that he felt like the port he was in later generations. But when was he, a port radiated more than ten countries, and radiated several provinces inland With a population of tens of millions, at this time the entire population of the Ming Dynasty is only tens of millions. Counting the hidden households and the hidden population, a hundred million or tens of millions would be enough.

"Master Li, how much did we steal!"

"General Xiao Mao, how can you talk about robbing! We are here to crusade against bandits and take ill-gotten gains for heaven's use!"

Not to mention, the old guy is quite thin-skinned, he wanted to set up an archway even after being a bitch, but nothing could suppress his joy, after scolding him, he couldn't help stretching out three fingers.

"I haven't finished the calculation yet, but what has already been shipped is 220 million shi of grain and 270 million taels of silver."

"so much!"

Mao Jue couldn't help but take a deep breath. This amount is enough for Dongjiang's food in four or five years. Although there is not so much silver and property, if Mao Jue earns more than two million taels through normal business, it will cost three Years, as expected, it is still fast.

"Then I will share the accounts in Dongjiang Town, Mr. Li, are you ready?"

In the excitement, Mao Jue asked again. However, this made Li Shanhai, who was dancing, froze with a smile on his face. It was really painful to pay out. The corners of the old guy's mouth twitched for a long time, and then he smiled forcedly .

"When, of course"

Of course he was not ready! Facts have proved that this old guy was so happy that he transported all his things to Jeolla-do without thinking about Dongjiang at all. What is even more annoying is that Li Shanhai even expropriated Mao Jue left behind civilian husbands and transport ships to transport grain to Li Chao. Fortunately, there were too many loot brought back, and he couldn't transport them all back in a day or two. Just let Mao Jue take the ledger to intercept the flow.

"Wow, a lot of food!"

Having been a pirate for half her life, when she took Mao Jue's warrant to the sea warehouse, this pirate girl Mori Sakura was simply stupid

Chapter 245. The Great East River

The reason why Maeda Toshitsune was let go is because this old ghost is really a smart person, slick, too smart person, he must be selfish, and when thinking about things, he will definitely consider self-interest, loyalty has too little influence on him.

The Maeda family may not necessarily turn to him, but he is between himself and the shogunate, which is also good for the helpless Toyotomi family. The Toyotomi family is just a layer of sheepskin that he put on in Japan. Then it is also good for yourself.

Disclosing the relationship between the Kuroda family and Dongjiang to this old slicker will not only shake the old guy's heart, but also drag the Kuroda family into the water, making the old foxes of the two families restrain each other and suspect each other.

"Wow ha ha ha, I'm getting worse and worse!"

Sitting in the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl, Mao Jue couldn't help raising his head and laughing out loud from the mosaic glass window at the back, even as he could see the sad face of old Maeda on the shore, just like Yang Bailao.

Not a family, not entering a house, Mao Jue pretended to laugh triumphantly there, Adelena, a foreign girl, also had a smile in Hu Lan's pupils, just looking at Mao Jue In the eyes of her back, there are some other meaningful things hidden in her smile.

War is a very troublesome thing. At the end of March, the large-scale armed conflicts in the Wa country had ceased, but it was not until the end of April that the main forces of the two armies of Lee's North Korea and Dongjiang officially retreated from Noto country and crossed the sea to return to the country. .

Thousands of sails are criss-crossed, the boat is sailing white waves, and seagulls are flying with the sails all over the sky, just like a flock of birds living in the jungle. This scale can be regarded as the most prosperous period in East Shanghai.

The two armies returned to the same place. Although Jeju Island was lent to Mao Jue as a military base, the sovereignty still belonged to Lee's North Korea, just like the US troops stationed in Japan and Korea in later generations. Among the ministers of Lee's North Korea, he has the broadest vision, but he is also suffering from the common problem of scholar-bureaucrats in this era, lack of planning, and thinks out as soon as he thinks about it.

Before this expedition, he wanted to build a team that could stand shoulder to shoulder with Dongjiang. He extorted weapons and equipment from Mao Jue with the right to use the North Second Road, and recruited [-] troops from the area that suffered from the Japanese invasion. The first time I came back, there were as many as six or seven thousand Lee's North Korean troops who died in battle or sickness, and the loss exceeded a quarter. However, after undergoing cruel training on the battlefield, these soldiers and horses have indeed been trained to fight.

However, when he returned to the country, Li Shanhai was a little dumbfounded. The military system of the Lee family was very similar to that of the Daming Guards. They were drawn from farming households, and the few professional soldiers were from the middle class and from the civil and military classes. This is how the more than 2000 supervisory troops he joined the unified army came from this time, but the remaining 2 Lee's North Korean troops are completely different from the first two.

At the moment they joined the army, they had already lost their land and household registration, but as professional soldiers, most of these people were from untouchable backgrounds and had no status. Li Shanhai could not and did not dare to bring them to Wang Jing.