Xue Hong and others led 7,000 soldiers and horses. After walking for two days, they finally arrived at Hedo, the seat of the shogunate.
Many soldiers led ox carts and pulled artillery shells. Xue Hong had brought all the rest except for leaving enough ammunition for the fleet to protect themselves this time.
As Professor Ai said: "Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon!"
Regardless of your seven or eight shogunate, if ten rounds of artillery shells are fired, you will still kneel down and sing the song of conquest! If ten rounds are not enough, add another twenty rounds! As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will have tactics interspersed, if you are rich, you will be covered with firepower!
Emperor Longqing gave Xue Hong half of the ammunition made by Bingzhangsi. This was made by Bingzhangsi in half a year!
The cost of these cannonballs alone is more than 100,000 taels of silver, which is almost like making money. But well... the more you shoot out, the more you rob... ahem, the more you get back.
Xue Hong directly ordered the mortar to be set up outside the city, adjust the muzzle, aim at the shogunate and the military camp, and fire ten rounds each first to listen for the sound!
In the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Yu, the younger brother of the current shogun Tokugawa Hideji, was having a friendly exchange with his sister-in-law.
Tokugawa Himasa: "Hey, my sister-in-law's body is still so beautiful... My brother, the general, who is always writing and drawing in the study every day, doesn't know how to appreciate it at all."
Tokugawa Ajiang held his head in his arms, smiled charmingly and asked: "Hmm... death. Do you really love me?"
While Tokugawa was busy exploring the mountain, he replied: "Sister-in-law, my feelings for you are astonishing! If you lie, you will die!"
"Well... you damn ghost, what are you talking about? Even if I die, I will die with you!"
Whoosh... Bang!!! Bang!! Boom!!!
Thirteen cannonballs fell by an unusual coincidence, and happened to land in the room where the two of them were.
Thirteen shells, all exploded! The whole room was blown to pieces in an instant.
Hmm... From this point of view, the Japanese wish is quite accurate. If they say they die together, they will die together. The wish will come true immediately without delay.
In the military camp, many shirtless warriors drank wine and returned to the arms of Amaterasu girls while half drunk and half awake.
"Baga!! What is this?"
"This is how the same thing??"
"Ah!! My legs!!"
"Ah! My third leg!!!"
"Amaterasu, save me!!"
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The ten rounds of artillery fire were completed quickly. Zhu Hui suddenly frowned and said: "Why did it end so quickly? Did you count correctly?"
Chen Chen said with a bad smile: "Maybe it's wrong? You still have to ask Junchen about this!"
Xue Hong pointed at Hedo Castle and shouted: "His Royal Highness Prince Fu didn't hear enough of the cannons. What do you think, brothers?"
"Ten more rounds!!"
The soldiers who followed Xue Hong on the expedition were able to make a lot of money, and they won many battles with almost no casualties, which made the morale of these soldiers unprecedentedly high.
Military strength is built up through victories and generous rewards.
Xue Hong pulled out the sword from his waist with a loud sound and ordered: "Then let's fight for another forty rounds! Let go!"
Originally, the samurai in Kawado City thought that everything was over, but suddenly, cannonballs rained down again!
The entire city of Kawato was trembling under the bombardment of justice.
After forty rounds of shelling, the shogunate and military camp had been almost razed to the ground.
Xue Hong sheathed her sword and mounted her horse: "Let's go, it's time to enter the city for a good harvest."
After several cannons broke open the city gate, seven thousand people entered the city directly.
Along the street, many corpses of civilians appeared. Walking among the ruins, Xue Hong suddenly stepped on something. Xue Hong looked down and saw that it was a child of about four years old. The corpse had been blown to pieces.
The moment he saw the child, Xue Hong's heart palpitated.
Xue Hong suddenly raised his head and looked around, and saw many people in rags among the ruins, accidentally injured by shells and died in the shelling.
Xue Hong suddenly felt a strange feeling, but it passed quickly.
Xue Hong led everyone straight to the ruins of the shogunate. A total of fifty rounds of shelling before and after had razed the entire shogunate to the ground.
Zhu Hui also led his troops back from the military camp and said: "There are no survivors in the warrior camp. I have ordered people to set fire to the military camp."
Xue Hong nodded: "Well, thank you for your hard work, Your Highness."
Mr. Li Qian, you lead people to search for finances in the ruins of the shogunate.
President Zhang Qian, Vice President Li, President Ying Qian, and Vice President Shao, each of you will lead two hundred brothers to search the noble houses in the city and leave no one alive.
"The last general takes command!"
The whole army was busy until almost dark, and then they finished checking the money in the city.
A total of 250 million taels of silver, 3 million taels of gold, and various jewelry were found from the shogunate's treasury.
The four thousand chiefs also confiscated a total of more than 10 million taels of silver from the homes of nobles in the city.
With so much silver, Xue Hong had no choice but to temporarily station his people in the city, while his colleagues sent scouts to pay attention in all directions.
One thousand troops and five hundred firearms troops were stationed outside the city.
At the same time, a thousand soldiers were sent to transport the silver back to the ship in batches.
As usual, Xue Hong once again took out a large amount of silver to reward the entire army, and ordered that the sword should not be sealed within three days.
But the next day, when Xue Hong went out, she regretted the order not to seal the sword for three days.
Xue Hong saw a thirteen or fourteen year old girl from a poor family being dragged into the courtyard by a Ming Dynasty soldier. Xue Hong's mood instantly sank.
The girl's eyes were full of fear and confusion.
At the same time, the bodies of two old people fell at the door of their home, and their blood stained a large area of land red.
Xue Hong listened to the wailing of the girl in the courtyard and finally stepped inside.
At this moment, the girl was pinned down by the soldier.
Xue Hong sighed: "Stop."
When the soldier heard this, he quickly stopped. When he turned around and saw Xue Hong, he immediately put on his clothes and saluted, "I've met the general!!"
Xue Hong looked at the soldier's face, which was similar to his own age, and asked, "How old are you this year?"
The soldier grinned: "I am nineteen this year, and I have never been able to start a family because my family is poor.
But things are different now! I will go to Japan with the general and earn more money than I have in half my life! I can buy a house and land when I go back!"
The soldier smiled brightly and full of hope, but Xue Hong felt very sad in his heart.
Xue Hong didn't know what to say, so he groped for a while in his arms, took out a small gold ingot, and a token and handed it to the soldier: "This is a reward for you, take it. Go to the camp to deliver my military order. The whole army must assemble immediately."
The soldier took the ingot and token, obeyed the order, and turned around to leave.
The girl was so frightened that she curled up, with blood still flowing from her lower body.
Xue Hong couldn't bear it after all, so he took off his cloak from behind and threw it to the girl.
The girl looked at Xue Hong and tilted her head, feeling very puzzled, but then she showed a grateful expression.
Xue Hong stepped out of the courtyard and was about to walk to the military camp when he suddenly felt a figure behind him rushing towards him quickly.
Xue Hong subconsciously raised his hand and struck with his sword.
Since arriving in Japan, Xue Hong has been in a state of mental fatigue at all times in order to avoid accidents. He himself is invincible. However, despite ordering massacres many times, the guilt in his heart will not diminish, even with the blessing of national hatred.
It is precisely the long-term mental exhaustion that has made Xue Hong's perception of the bigger things slower. Now in a passive situation, he can only perceive the outline of things.
After Xue Hong swung the sword, he realized what was running towards him just now.
It was the girl just now, with a pure smile on her face, holding the cloak that Xue Hong just threw to her, as if she wanted to say thank you to Xue Hong.
But this smile, as his head fell to the ground, was frozen in this moment forever.
Xue Hong felt his soul throbbing, and even the shadow of Tai Chi began to appear automatically behind him.
Suddenly, a bright light appeared above Xue Hong's head, helping Xue Hong stabilize his soul.
After Xue Hong calmed down, he opened a pit with his palm, wrapped the girl's body with his cloak, put it into the pit with his own hands, and finally filled it with soil.
At this moment, the horn of the military camp sounded.
Xue Hong stopped lingering and turned to leave.
(The reason why I wrote this chapter is because the psychological changes of the protagonist are according to what the author wrote. This is a period of growth.
Xue Hong is not a Holy Mother, and the author will not write him as a Holy Mother. Japanese warriors and dog kings should be killed. But from this moment on, they will no longer kill indiscriminately and massacre cities.
The author used to hate Japanese people very much, which is a sentiment that every young person in our country must have, until I gradually learned about the master Hayao Miyazaki through animation.
For the first time, I learned that among Japanese people, there are good people and anti-war elements.
Xue Hong will not be merciful and will never do so in the future. But to massacre the city at every turn and to exterminate the clan just because others have offended me is really not something that a cultivator should do.
Revenge is okay, and it's even more okay to deal with hostile forces, but you can't kill everyone at once.
The author also wanted to express Xue Hong's mental growth by writing this chapter.
If you have different opinions, you are welcome to leave them in the comment area. As long as you don't curse, the author accepts them humbly.