Chapter 343 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is divided into Japan (please order, please vote)
The setting sun is like blood, and the fire is soaring into the sky.
The densely packed wooden houses around Shinagawa Port are extremely easy to catch fire. Since yesterday evening, the four-nation joint fleet on the sea outside Shinagawa Port has been firing red-hot incendiary bombs on the wooden houses there! In fact, they are just some placed on the wooden houses.
Red-hot solid bullets on the stove
, put a piece of wood on it, stuff it into the barrel and blast it out. This kind of shell was originally used to bombard wooden ships. The wood used to build the ship and the canvas and ropes everywhere on the ship are flammable and burn red.
Wherever the metal ball lands, it will catch fire!
The dense Japanese-style wooden houses in the towns around Shinagawa Port are even more suitable for the appetite of these red and hot metal balls than the wooden ships on the water! These wooden wooden houses are very thin and cannot stop the solid shells falling at high speed.
All
Once a big hole was made, the hot shells hit the house and rolled around. There were all flammable objects there! Wooden furniture, textiles, paper, and thick tatami mats made of straw were all easily burned.
goods.
Moreover, the municipal area around Shinagawa Port covers a large area and the houses are extremely dense. Even the narrow streets are filled with flammable debris. Cannonballs fired from the sea can set off a fire wherever they land.
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Sometimes these cannonballs will land on the hard ground and then bounce up, then randomly find a direction and fly hundreds or thousands of meters, breaking several thin wooden walls along the way, and sometimes they will graze and scream.
The townsfolk are running around! It’s going to be a bloody murder!
How can a body of flesh and blood resist such a red-hot iron ball weighing dozens of kilograms? Even if it is just "gently" brushed, it can take away a piece of flesh and blood, beat the person to a bloody mess, and fall to the ground screaming in agony.
How!
The bombardment of incendiary bombs lasted for less than an hour, and the area around Shinagawa Port was already a raging fire that could not be extinguished! The fire took advantage of the wind and spread toward the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
Shouts, screams, curses, and the roar of artillery from time to time, swept through the already chaotic Edo Castle Town and reached an attic of the Satsuma clan's residence outside Cherry Gate.
"This is hell. Is this the power that took away the lives of Osomatsu-kun and the five hundred Satsuma warriors?"
In the attic, stood a man in his fifties with short eyebrows, big eyes, and a rectangular face. He was wearing a well-made black feather fabric embroidered with the Shimadzu family crest, the circular cross pattern. This man was exactly
The feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain and the governor of the Shimazu clan, Shimazu Saibin.
Next to Shimazu Qibin, stood a tall and stout man with a thick beard, wearing a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom dragon robe, a red pointed hood on his head, and a gold cross hanging on his chest.
, holding a copy of "True Testament" in his left hand, and his right hand pressed on the handle of a waist knife. This person is none other than Hong Daquan!
This Hong Daquan is really an expert at deceiving people. He somehow got on the path of Shimazu Qibin, the Lord of the Satsuma Domain. He seemed to have become Qibin's guest and was even brought to the Satsuma Domain's residence in Edo by him.
"Master Marquis, am I right? Even the elite soldiers of the shogunate cannot defeat foreigners and demons! The only one who can help the Shimazu family and Japan now is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"
Hong Daquan couldn't understand what Shimazu Qibin was talking about? But he could make a rough guess. And what he said to Shimazu Qibin now, the latter also couldn't understand a word.
However, this does not prevent them from communicating one-on-one in private, because they can also talk in writing, after all, both parties know Chinese characters.
Shimazu Qibin turned around, nodded slightly to Hong Daquan, and then pointed to a small square table placed in the attic.
There are pens, ink, papers and an oil lamp on the square table, with a futon on each side.
Shimazu Saibin wrote: What is their purpose of doing this?
Hong Daquan wrote: Japan is the golden country in the legend of foreigners!
Shimazu Qibin felt comfortable and wrote again: So what did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom want from Japan?
Hong Daquan wrote: Is the Emperor of Japan a descendant of God?
Shimazu Saibin was stunned, but still wrote: Yes, Amaterasu sent her grandson to rule Japan and founded the Yamato Dynasty. She was the father of the first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
Hong Daquan also wrote: So the father of Tiansun is the son of Amaterasu?
Shimazu Qibin didn't know what Hong Daquan meant? But he still wrote: Yes! Tiansun's father is named Tennin Suoermei, and Amaterasu is his mother.
Hong Daquan wrote: So who is the father of Tian Ren Sui Er Ming?
What?
Shimazu Qibin was stunned again and again. What's the problem?
But he still picked up a writing brush and wrote: Amaterasu has no husband, and Tennin Suorome has no father.
Hong Daquan wrote: So, Amaterasu gave birth to a virgin?
Virgin birth?
Of course Shimazu Saibin knew that the Virgin Mary was also a virgin...
Shimazu Saibin quickly picked up his brush and wrote: You don’t think Amaterasu is the Virgin Mary, do you?
Hong Daquan wrote: No, she is not. But she may be the woman of God, Father Hao, no, a goddess.
ah....
Shimazu Qibin was completely dumbfounded.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom found a man for Amaterasu, no, a male god, or God!
Did they ask the Catholic Church?
Seeing Shimazu Qibin's stunned look, Hong Daquan picked up his pen and said again: Satsuma Hou, do you now know why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to help you? Our king is also the son of the heavenly father!
Yes, Hong Xiuquan has become the elder of Emperor Tongren, more than a hundred generations older. He has to call Amaterasu his aunt
Shimazu Qibin quickly picked up his brush and wrote: This is impossible! You are talking nonsense!
Hong Daquan wrote calmly: Satsuma Hou, you are not the emperor, how do you know I am talking nonsense? Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom supports the emperor! Satsuma Hou, I think General Tokugawa will have to sign a treaty that will humiliate the country. Traitor.
After that, will the Tokugawa shogunate still be able to secure Japan's power? Will Japan, like China, usher in a new Warring States Period?
Warring States Period?
It sounds very exciting!
For the Tokugawa shogunate and the Tokugawa family's close feudal lords, the new Warring States period meant endless disasters.
But for a powerful feudal clan like the Satsuma Domain, a new warring period also means an opportunity to reshuffle the cards...::..This is the dream of generations of Satsuma clan lords and Satsuma clan warriors.
ah!
Shimazu Qibin narrowed his eyes, his face changed slightly, and then he picked up his brush and wrote: Maybe you are right!
At the same time, the British Minister Bonham, the French East India Army Commander Russell, and the Qing Nanyang Minister Luo Xueyan had all boarded the Shinagawa Fifth Fort with the "Great Wall Will Never Fall" flag flying.
This is the largest of the seven forts, but it cannot withstand the fierce attack of the Nanyang Army officers and soldiers. Although the Japanese samurai guarding here resisted desperately, they were outnumbered in both weapons and tactics, and their numbers were far less than their opponents.
The resistance only caused twenty or thirty casualties to the attacking side. Not only could it not win them victory, it could not even win them respect.
In the eyes of Wen Xian and Russell, the Qing army was very weak, and even the Nanyang New Army was not very strong. And the Japanese samurai were defeated by the Qing army... Well, they entered the ranks of candidates for subjugation.
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Since the Nanyang Army of the Qing Dynasty can defeat the Japanese army, if Britain and France want to support a general agent in East Asia, it will naturally be the Qing Dynasty!
No way, they first spent a lot of money to support Japan to defeat the Qing Dynasty, and then let Japan fight against Russia?
It’s too much trouble! It’s too much investment!
Therefore, Wen Xian and Russell now plan to talk to Luo Xueyan together to see if he is willing to send troops to help Britain and France to take Russia's retreat.::::
"Oh, do you want to deal with Russia? Of course this is negotiable!" Luo Xueyan has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but he did not agree immediately. This has to be negotiated! He will only be willing to take action if the price is right...
Chapter completed!