Chapter 837 The Divine Fire Flying Crow, Burning Kyoto
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu never doubted that the Ming people would not keep their word. The Ming envoys or emperors' imperial edicts always spit on one mouthful and do what they say.
As long as a treaty is reached, the Ming Dynasty will definitely implement it resolutely, even if it may be detrimental to the Ming Dynasty in the short term.
It is not just the Ming Dynasty, but also the dynasties of the Central Plains, which seem to have the confidence to keep their word.
The origin of this confidence is also very simple. As long as the time dimension is extended, unfavorable treaties will become beneficial to China due to firm implementation.
For example, the Ming Dynasty and Altan Khan concluded a peace treaty. In the short term, it seemed to be unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, but in the long term, Altan Khan's rule was in crisis; for example, the Chanyuan alliance between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.
Because the world situation will change with time, adverse factors in the past may also become favorable.
This is actually very normal. China has been a visible leader in the territory for thousands of years. This transcendent status that has lasted for thousands of years has laid China's confidence, and it is also because of this transcendent status that has given China more historical experiences and lessons.
China can even use self-criticism as a tool to serve itself. The Chinese literati called this self-cultivation that can be examined three times a day.
Now, the Ming Dynasty began to accept criticism from others. The Ming Emperor would solicit the interests of all classes of the Ming Dynasty and also seek the opinions of visitors such as foreign envoys. This is an extremely humble attitude, but no matter how humble it is, it cannot cover up the pride from the inside out.
When self-criticism is combined with criticism from others, the Ming Dynasty has unprecedented vitality inside and outside.
For example, this triangular trade of the journey, the middle and return journey was definitely regarded as a landmark event of the collapse of rituals and music. However, today, the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty kept silent about this, without observing, not caring, or discussing, and pretending not to know, they could think that it did not exist.
The literati and officials mainly focus on dealing with the emperor's reform and innovation, and try their best to correct His Majesty's overly radical or conservative decrees, and have no time to deal with these misfortunes.
Which self-criticism and accepting criticism from others, these two seemingly ordinary abilities are skills that the Japanese will never learn.
Because once the Japanese start to criticize themselves, they will fall into self-doubt and self-destruction; once they accept criticism from others, especially from the Ming Dynasty, they will fall into an identity crisis, that is, the ultimate question of "Who am I?"
This phenomenon is summarized by Legas as: Rome in the East has never disappeared, so that all the surrounding countries are in a crisis of identity, and cannot reflect on it, nor can they accept criticism from the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, all consensuses established by resisting the Ming Dynasty will collapse.
So in the eyes of the Ming people, the Japanese were a little strange. Blind, arrogant, arrogant, and short-sighted, inferior, and stubborn. This seems particularly rippled and contradictory, but the Japanese live in such a contradictory way.
As an envoy, Gao Qiyu came to the Welcoming Hall in Kyoto, Japan, and saw this contradiction. Especially during the negotiations, the Japanese thought that the outcome of the war had been decided and had to admit that they had defeated; but on the other hand, the Japanese believed that the factor of defeat was accidental. If you make another decision, you can win.
The fall of Nagato seemed to have put Japan in a complete madness.
Someone shouted that Yu Shu would fight to the end. It seemed that he was willing to offer everything for Japan, but he was unwilling to die if he was asked to go to the battlefield;
Some people kept calling for peace and slid completely, which seemed very rational, but he was unwilling to bear historical guilt when he signed the peace agreement.
Gao Qiyu received the first surrender letter from Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In this surrender letter, Toyotomi Hideyoshi allowed the Ming army to station on the mine in the name of defending the Japanese pirate mine, which was the biggest compromise in the surrender letter.
Japan is still at the end of the Warring States Period, and has only achieved nominal unification. Localities are still highly autonomous, and major names are still fighting. In order to ensure the stability of silver production, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as the shogun, invited the Ming army to station around the mines to protect production and not be affected by the Japanese civil war.
The income from the mine is still owned by the local Daming, not the Ming Dynasty;
But the Ming Dynasty has the right to give priority to purchasing mineral products and allows the use of treasure banknotes to be redeemed.
The entire compromise is full of self-deception logic, just lie to yourself.
It seems that as long as Japan ends the Warring States Period, it can send the Ming army away; it seems that as long as the silver is not directly pulled to the Ming Dynasty, there is a time when the treasure banknotes are exchanged as equivalents, and the minerals are still in the hands of Japan.
The Japanese call it still in control; the Ming Dynasty calls it a collapse of controllability.
Gao Qiyu did not plan to let Toyotomi Hideyoshi go. He asked the King of the Japanese to live in the Ming Dynasty and let Toyotomi Hideyoshi give up more benefits.
"Da Honglu, the flying crow of the Divine Fire has arrived." Li Chengli was very reluctant to talk to Gao Qiyu, thinking that speaking too much to this scholar would become bad, but he still has to say what he should say.
Qi Jiguang released 60,000 Divine Fire Flying Crows at one time in Nagamon City, directly defeating the morale of Japan's stubborn resistance. However, the Ming Emperor always liked to watch the enemy be lenient, and sent a batch of Divine Fire Flying Crows to Osaka Bay to guard the Thousand Houses, and then sent it to the Yingen Pavilion outside Kyoto, Japan.
Gao Qiyu picked up the tea cup, pulled Fumo with the tea lid and asked with a smile, "How many have you sent?"
"Thirty thousand." Li Chengli said calmly.
"Clang."
The tea cup Gao Qiyu was holding fell to the ground, rolled around, and the tea sprinkled all over the floor. He quickly stood up, packed the water stains on his body, and asked in surprise: "How many Divine Fire Flying Crows?"
"Thirty thousand." Li Chengli said with great affirmation: "The Changmen City released 60,000. Your Majesty sent a total of five open fire, poisonous fire, flying fire, divine fire and fiery fire, a total of 30,000 divine fire flying crows."
Gao Qiyu was silent for a moment. His Majesty did not engage in military affairs, and his actions were really a bit light or heavy. These 30,000 divine fire flying crows were released together. You must know that there are only one hundred crossbows that release the divine fire flying crows, and they were carried on the side chariot.
Thirty thousand Divine Fire Flying Crows can't even be released even if they break the tendons of the crossbow!
The release of the flying crow in the divine fire is a strong crossbow. The fire of the flying crow is ignited and then released. The fire is ignited in the air at the same time. Under the combined action of elasticity and gunpowder, the flight distance is as high as 250 meters.
The hit of this thing is really bad, but when the number increases, the hit becomes indifferent.
"If Toyotomi Hideyoshi refuses to surrender, then give it a try." Gao Qiyu didn't hesitate much.
These Kyoto ministers and daimyos have never seen the power of the Ming Dynasty's new firearms, and are still lucky and insist on resisting and refuse to agree to the treaty, then Gao Qiyu cannot be blamed for being ruthless.
Gao Qiyu is waiting for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's response.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi sat in Oda Nobunaga's position and realized why Oda Nobunaga seemed so stupid at the beginning. He actually wanted to kill Gao Qiyu and resist to the end, because the situation in Japan was already decayed to the point of being unsolvable.
After repeated weighing, Toyotomi Hideyoshi found that he was likely to have followed Oda Nobunaga's old path.
Fukushima Masaru hurriedly walked on the corridor of the oriole-singing floor. When he stepped on the floor, he would make a sound of yellow orioles chirping. He was named because of his disrepair, the floor was deformed, and the sound of nails and wooden boards rubbing. He hurriedly walked into the Honmaru Gate, which was regulated by the five-story Tianshou Pavilion. "General." Fukushima Masaru knelt on the ground, put his hands together to show his respect. After performing the salute, he bowed again before sitting up straight.
Masaru Fukushima is the leader of the Qishuo Seven Guns. The Qishuo Seven Guns is the direct line of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They are the seven bravest warriors of Toyotomi Hideyoshi when they fought against Shibata Katsuya in the Qishuoshi. Masaru Fukushima is the leader of the Qishuo. "Envoy Tang sent the latest peace letter." Fukushima Masashi handed the peace letter in his hand to the eunuch.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi opened it and looked at it for a long time, and said with a ferocious expression: "It's just too much! I can't promise the garrison in the mine, but I actually asked my king to go to the Ming Dynasty."
After solemn thinking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi came up with a solution that was not a solution, that is, let the emperor come forward and sign a peace treaty on behalf of Japan, which means that the emperor will bear all the crimes and infamy, and it will be convenient when he breaks the appointment in the future.
At this time, the emperor is like a paper wiping his butt. He uses it when he thinks about it and throws it away after using it.
The shoguns have no respect for the Emperor.
But now, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty exposed the beautiful dream of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Japanese king's request to go to the Ming Dynasty. No matter whether this can be achieved in the end, Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not let the emperor come out and be scolded.
As a shogun, Toyotomi Hideyoshi must defend his emperor and protect his emperor's safety and reputation. Whether sincere or not, at least in name, he is now a general, and all the principles come from the emperor's canonization and surname granting.
Masano Fukushima clasped his hands together and didn't speak, waiting for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to make a decision.
The current generals are in a very difficult situation. On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty is aggressive, and on the other hand, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will never bear the infamy and guilt of peace talks.
"Select the troops and follow me to kill the envoy Tang under the horse!" Toyotomi Hideyoshi suddenly stood up and said sternly: "The Ming Dynasty is ruthless, don't blame me for not saying anything! One thousand,500 soldiers and horses are so hard outside the Kyoto!"
Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell into the trap of Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga made the decision to kill Gao Qiyu and resist to the end. The dilemma at that time was not resolved, and it became even more difficult. Toyotomi Hideyoshi could only fight to the death. "It's the general." Fukushima Masaru hesitated for a while, and bowed again, or chose to accompany him to try again.
Shen Li, Minister of Rites, once believed that the dilemma in multiple dimensions such as geography, politics, military, economic, and culture will eventually push the supreme ruler of Japan to the decision to bet on national destiny, and it is not today, but whenever there is a chance, the Japanese will be betting on all national destiny and fight for the dilemma of gamblers.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi mobilized his troops, the Ming army at Yingen Pavilion soon learned that there were many Ming Dynasty's Duntai Yuanhou and the coastal defense patrol inspectors in Kyoto City. Moreover, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops mobilized, which made the differences in Kyoto even worse.
In the early morning of the third day of May, with the distant morning bells coming from the fifth pagoda of Toji Temple, the mist in the mountains quietly dissipated in the wind. These days were a bit dry and it was a good day to set fire.
The sky is as clear as jasper, and the morning glow is gradually dyeing, and the morning light plates the edges of the East Mountain with a layer of gold edges.
The green waves of Kamakawa reflect the graceful figure of the weeping willows on both sides of the shore, and the figures of the samurai. Toyotomi Hideyoshi planned to go straight to Yingen Pavilion, kill the 1,500 soldiers at the door of the house, kill the Ming envoy, and force all the differences in Kyoto City to become consistent.
The town houses in Luozhong area are lined up one after another, with dark brown wooden lattice windows half open, and the light smoke from morning cooking rises from the roof.
The people in the town walked in a hurry on the grass. The peddlers carrying loads shouted at the kettle vegetables and boiled water, complaining that the business had been getting worse and worse in the past few days. The ministers who were sitting in the ox cart seemed very frightened; behind the warm curtains of the tea house, the sound of boiling pots mixed with the fine sound of the tea leaves grinding, but no one cared about it.
The clouds of war enveloped Kyoto City. Early that morning, one hundred crossbows lined up, aiming not at the direction the warriors might have attacked, but at Kyoto City.
There were two Kyoto, the eastern capital Luoyang and the western capital Chang'an. The city of Chang'an gradually declined and the only one left in Kyoto was Luoyang.
Gao Qiyu stood next to a row of crossbows, and Huang Bin followed Gao Qiyu in the crossbow formation. Gao Qiyu's steps were slow and firm. He was checking the crossbows and wondering whether to release the Divine Fire Flying Crow assembled on these crossbows.
He was not worried about his sins, because all members of the Ming army today wore the chilling three-inch dragon flag sticker.
Your Majesty pays for all sins.
Gao Qiyu is a scholar. He doesn't want to commit so many murders, but if he were Japanese, it immediately became reasonable.
The two of them checked all the crossbows, and Gao Qiyu nodded to Li Chengli. Li Chengli pulled out the Qi family's sword and raised it above his head. In the early summer wind, the sword light reflected the golden red of the rising sun. The tooth flag behind him rolled in the wind, making a sound.
"Let go!" Li Chengli waved his sword.
The tooth flag turned, the sound of drums and horns began to become excited, and the flags in the army began to wave. Six people and one crossbow put a flying crow on the crossbow. After the small flag was waving, the soldiers lit the fire, opened the insurance, and released the flying crows.
The sound of the machine expanding was cracking, and the crossbow strings made a blast. One hundred Divine Fire Crows, with a flash of fire at the bottom, flying towards Kyoto City.
After the Divine Fire Flying Crow took off, the medicine that caught fire burned out, and two burning gunpowder cartridges were lit at the bottom of the flying crow, making an inconspicuous tail in the air. The whistle like a carrier pigeon resounded over the entire Kyoto. This was the flying whistle designed by the doctors of the Gewu Academy in order to judge the speed of the flying crow.
When the flying crow was ejected, the whistle was sharp and high-pitched. As the speed decreased, it became low. After the fire was ignited, it began to accelerate again. The whistle was louder again, and the two wings of the flying crow bent slightly downward. This was to maintain the stability of the flying crow. At the tail of the flying crow, it is not the past scattered tail feather, but a kind of triangular wing to maintain the balance and center of gravity of the flying crow.
Three minutes later, a hundred flying crows in the second round soared into the air, and the whistle sounded like a majestic music in the air.
The third round, the fourth round...the flying crow is launching continuously.
The Japanese in Kyoto looked up at the sky with some unknown understanding, and the whistle came a little suddenly.
Qi Jiguang is actually not optimistic about firearms like Feiya. In his eyes, artillery and muskets are serious firearms. He doesn't like things like Feiya that are just showing off. It's mainly because it's a bit waste of gunpowder, which is a bit like setting off fireworks.
A flying crow is nearly six and a half pounds, most of which are gunpowder. Gunpowder is really expensive, even in the Ming Dynasty.
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The biggest reason why the firearms like Feiya are not liked by Qi Jiguang is that they have no accuracy. Even though the doctors of the Academy of Geju have tried their best, the influence of the wind on it is too great. If the wind changes slightly, I don’t know where it will blow.
Qi Jiguang was right. After the fire on both wings burned out, the flying crow began to drift with the wind, flying high and floating farther.
A flying crow had not had a good luck. It flew a little low, and it pierced its head on the roof of the choen house. It bounced twice, and with a click, the spring at the tail of the abdominal cavity pushed a small piece of flint, pushing it into the abdominal cavity of the flying crow. This is a collision device. After the fire burned out, the safety rope of the machine will be broken. If it collides slightly, it will be activated.
The security bolts that the soldiers pulled out were iron bolts, which were convenient for transportation, and the rope insurance that was burned by the fire propeller.
The flint was pushed into the abdominal cavity, with a scythe in the abdominal cavity, and sparks splashed everywhere, and the flying crows exploded.
"Boom!"
More than three pounds of gunpowder exploded in the abdominal cavity, as gorgeous as the explosion of the largest fireworks. The white phosphorus in the interlayer was dispersed by the explosion, and smoke traces were drawn in the air and began to burn.
Several choen houses were lit, and the wind helped the fire, making the fire grow bigger and bigger.
The Divine Fire Flying Crow has too many shortcomings, such as instability. Some flying crows didn't even have time to land. The plane expanded and activated it in the air, setting off a large firework in the air. But the fireworks were not celebrated, but the death bell was ringing for Kyoto, and gunpowder fell into the city with burning objects.
(Explosion scene, similar.)
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army arrived at the Welcoming Hall, the Ming army released thousands of Divine Fire Crows to the four directions, and the entire Kyoto of Japan was caught in a fire. The Ming army stopped releasing it. It was not that there was no firearm, but that the bowstring began to be tired and needed to be replaced.
After a quarter of an hour, the whistle of the Divine Fire Crow began to sound again.
Li Chengli stood in front of the Welcoming Hall with three hundred soldiers. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had arrived.
"Jade plate, jade plate, jade plate hangs in the air to war; in all directions, the Qingyi Qiang is swaying in all directions;"
A soldier tied his armor and tied his armrest with a smile on his face. After hammering it, he suddenly started singing loudly. This was a battle song created by His Highness King De of the Gewu Academy. The Hongwu rhyme and the low and slow drum sounds merged into one.
"Beijing Temple, the magnificent Jing Temple is shaking the eight deserts; thousands of tents, thousands of tents, and the lights are shaking in the dust;"
The soldiers began to sing together, and then wrapped the knife in their hands with cloth and tied them together to prevent the sword from becoming slippery due to blood in the battle and could not be chopped. In a group of three people, they brought three-inch dragon flag stickers with each other, and checked them and would not fall.
"The big river goes east, the flags rise; the Longshan goes east, and people walk on the stars and frost; "
Death is never terrible, just like the big river goes east, people are destined to die when they are born. The soldiers put on their horns and their voices become low. When the horns are put on their horns, the entire battlefield becomes solemn.
Gao Qiyu, Huang Bin, Li Chengli, Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong, Zhang Wenyuan, Yang Zhi and others have never forgotten that their entry into Beijing this time was dangerous, just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not get rid of Oda Nobunaga's fate, and the Yingxiang Pavilion was 1,500 people, and they had never escaped from danger.
"Chang'an, Chang'an, 100,000 Japanese skulls are built between clouds; lonely geese are lonely geese, and their bones are broken;"
"Kill!"
Ma Wenying launched a mutiny in Luomuying, Hangzhou Prefecture, and later was specially granted by the emperor and was "exiled" to the Osaka Bay garrison, and made meritorious service.
When Hu Zongxian formed the Zhejiang Ninth Camp, he wanted to one day avenge this bloody hatred, but Hu Zongxian did not wait until that day, but instead died in the heavenly prison, leaving only a word that the sword buried the wronged prison, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds.
At that time, Ma Wenying was only fourteen years old. He never dared to forget his family, relatives and children from his hometown for a moment. He died under the butcher knife of Japanese pirates. He never dared to forget for a moment. "I still see my mother's arrows being burned when I get back to burial; my sword is shining with a horse and a spear is riding on the gate of the moon; "
The Japanese pirates of Toyotomi Hideyoshi rushed up, and the cannons and firearms began to roar, harvesting the lives of Japanese pirates like cutting wheat. The warriors without armor fell one after another in front of the lead bullets that were like rain curtains.
The Japanese samurai fell one after another, but the charge without stopping at all. The Japanese pirates rushed to the front frantically, and like storm waves, they collided onto the city wall composed of the camp.
The killing began.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi discovered something was wrong. Indeed, the Ming army had only 1,500 people, and he mobilized more than 30,000 people.
No matter how you say it, 30,000 to 1,500 people have the advantage of me.
But these 1,500 people were as firm as rocks on the coast, blocking endless charges. When the first wave of charge was blocked by the Ming army's firearms, artillery, and firearms, Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew that they might have miscalculated.
"The jade plate, the jade plate is sometimes round and sometimes incomplete; the moonlight, the moonlight, the Han family is used to be round."
After the first wave of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attack ended, the melodious and slow war songs of the soldiers sounded again, and all the soldiers organized their armor and firearms in an orderly manner, and packed the bones of their comrades.
They stayed in Kyoto, Japan forever, with powerful children, rich children, and poor men.
A scholar-official said that the farmer's son killed the farmer's son in the war, but Li Chengli knew very well that Osaka Bay was guarding the Thousand Houses, and 300 people were truly rich children. The danger here was self-evident, but they still came here and died here now.
The eggs never end in the nest.
Thirty thousand people besieged 1,500 people, and they should win no matter what. However, three hours later, the samurai of Toyotomi Hideyoshi first collapsed, and no one dared to charge.
The Ming army suffered heavy casualties, with more than 500 people killed in this battle. The four lines of defense had been defeated. The last line of defense, the crossbow formation of the Divine Fire Crow flying, was behind the army.
But the Ming army was still very morale, and war songs always sounded in the gaps, and the Japanese paid at least five thousand warriors for this.
Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong and Zhang Wenyuan, the three generals from Luomu Camp in Zhejiang, died in the battlefield. They led the camp and stood on the front line. They were also the first group to fall into the torrent of the Japanese. Only Yang Zhi was still alive, but he was seriously injured.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi retreated, and he knew he could not win because his morale was no longer available.
The entire Kyoto has become a sea of fire, with smoke and dust rolling, and fires soaring into the sky, and there are fleeing Japanese people everywhere. They shouted in horror. If Toyotomi Hideyoshi doesn't leave, and if he doesn't go to put out the fire, the entire Kyoto will probably be burned.
The Ming army never thought of retreating, all they wanted was to burn both jade and stone.
Gao Qiyu, with the remaining Ming army soldiers, restrained his corpses and buried them in the small earth slope behind Ying'en Pavilion.
Standing in front of the five hundred newly dug tombs, Gao Qiyu looked at the setting sun in the sky, looked at the wooden tombstones, and then solemnly said: "Your Majesty asked us to come here to exchange for the greatest benefit. Your sacrifice will be remembered forever in the Ming Dynasty, and your sacrifice will not be in vain."
"The five thousand samurai in Japan and Kyoto of Japan will be buried with you."
The fire in Kyoto lasted for three full days before it was slowly extinguished. Three days later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi surrounded the King of the Japanese Emperor and came to the Welcoming En Pavilion to surrender.
Even if you kill Gao Qiyu, there is no meaning, because the people of Kyoto have clearly known the terrible power of the Daming firearm. The consequence of killing the Ming envoy is to welcome the anger of the Ming Dynasty.
"I actually don't mind you killing me." Gao Qiyu sat in a high position and looked at Toyotomi Hideyoshi kneeling on the ground and said, "When I left my Majesty a farewell poem. If I die in Japan, the Ming Dynasty would have a good reason to sweep across Japan."
"A group always has all kinds of voices. If I die, it will make these voices consistent."
"What a pity, you don't have the ability to kill me."
"Now, sign this treaty."
The contents of the treaty are:
The Ming army sent troops to station in various mining areas;
The Ming Dynasty had the right to explore minerals in Japan, and the ownership of the mines found belonged to the Ming Dynasty;
The Ming people enjoyed absolute immunity in Japan, and all the Ming people who committed the crime were handed over to the Governor's Office of the Nagasaki of the Ming Dynasty;
Sai City was designated as the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese were not allowed to enter;
There are no Japanese mountain fortifications from Sakai City to the Kyoto of Japan, and the Ming army was stationed in Kyoto of Japan;
The first culprits who punished the invading Korea and attacked the Yingen Pavilion army, including the commander of the North Korean army and the Fukushima Masashima who attacked the Yingen Pavilion army this time;
The military assistance fee was 15 million silver, divided into 40 years of repayment, and was mortgaged with Zhucheng customs and salt tax on the coast of Japan;
500,000 silver was paid annually as the cost of the Ming army;
The King of the Japanese resided in the Ming Dynasty, and other nine major items, including the residence of the Ming Dynasty, will be signed separately.
(This chapter ends)