Pan Xiucheng led his battalion commander into the ruins of Sado-roku. The Ashigaru of the Sendai clan who were resting on both sides of the road saw the senior officials of the Northern Navy approaching and quickly stood up and saluted.
At this time, the liaison officer of the North Navy came over, and Pan Xiucheng asked: "What was the result of the battle?"
"Report to the leader, 236 prisoners have been captured. The death toll is still being counted. Some were buried in the rubble, some were buried in the sea of fire, and some escaped. The Sendai Army has sent men to chase them."
Pan Xiucheng nodded, and then asked curiously: "Has anyone committed suicide by caesarean section?" He had heard Wang Yuanfang mention before that Japanese warriors often committed caesarean section and committed suicide.
The liaison officer shook his head and said, "No."
There has been no war for more than two hundred years, and the bravery of the island's samurai has long since disappeared. Caesarean section? This is something that ronin who can't survive in order to blackmail wealthy people. Anyone who is afraid of causing trouble will pay for the ronin uncle.
disappear as far as you can.
In these days, samurai caesareans were forced to perform disembowelment on themselves only after the feudal lord ordered it. Generally, it was done with a "fan cut". They held a fan against their stomachs and then found someone with good swordsmanship to act as an intermediary. Nothing else.
It hurts so much!
According to the information obtained by the Sendai Army after interrogating the prisoners, the local warriors were blown to pieces in the second round of shelling. This was so conspicuous that the drones easily discovered the soldiers in the local huts during reconnaissance.
Those guys in bright armor.
As a result, after the first round of artillery fire, the local warriors were panicked but remained motionless. So under the second round of artillery fire, all the warriors in the courtyard were killed.
In order to frighten the Satsuma clan, Date Village beheaded most of the captured Satsuma warriors in public, and also put their heads on iron spears and stood them outside the Sado foothills; it was like a hell on earth.
The whole army of the North Navy was very fed up with this. They had already surrendered, so why did they still want to kill?
That night, everyone returned to the port to garrison. Early the next morning, Zhao Xin came to the shore. After hearing the results of the interrogation of the prisoners and learning about the stronghold situation in Osumi County, he immediately ordered the coalition troops to march towards "Xiaogenzhan" immediately.
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The Thunderbolt would not wait for the troops to return at Sado Pier. In order to quickly capture Osumi County, Zhao Xin asked Deng Fei to take Hu Ji's fourth regiment to sail north and along the coastline to Dagenzhan. In order to save time, Zhao Xin planned to let the four regiments sail north.
The group took it alone.
According to the information obtained, there are five outer city strongholds in the entire Osumi County, Sado, Oneza, Oneza, Tashiro, and Ugen. Ugen is also an enclave of Osumi County, separated by Gansu County.
Zhao Xin's strategy is divided into three stages. The first stage is to capture the four counties of Osumi Province; the second stage is to cross the sea and attack the opposite Ijuku County, thus blocking the waterway of Satsuma Bay, and then capture Sakurajima; in the third stage
, it was estimated that the reinforcements from the Sendai clan were about to arrive, and then they went all the way north through Shira County, Kuwabara County, and finally captured Hisikari County.
As a result, the entire Satsuma Domain was divided into two, and the Shimazu family's troops in Hyuga and Osumi Kingdom could not effectively support Kagoshima City. As for whether the Shimazu family would be in Shira County and Kuwabara County
A large army was assembled in the plain area between them, and Zhao Xin was not worried at all. It would be easier to do things with more people.
Before the coalition forces set off, Zhao Xin invited Ida Muruchang over. As soon as he entered the tent, Ida Muruchang saw Zhao Xin sitting there with a calm face, with only one guard beside him.
"Meet Zhao Wangdian."
"Please take a seat. Watari Mamoru, I heard that the battle went very smoothly. What are the casualties of your domain?"
"Thanks to the assistance of the Beihai Navy, only a few people in this domain were slightly injured this time."
Zhao Xin nodded, frowned and said, "Does your army need to kill prisoners? There are more than a hundred people!"
Seeing Zhao Xin's unhappy expression, Date Murachang quickly explained: "Zhao Wangdian, these people are all local people born and raised, and they have prestige among the people. Moreover, they have been favored by the Shimazu family for hundreds of years.
, each family is intertwined with each other, just like this vassal. If we let these people go, it will be very difficult for this vassal to govern in the future."
Zhao Xinyi thought that this was really the case. The rural people had the say in the local area, and the farmers were used to obeying their orders. It would be okay if the Sendai clan had tens of thousands of troops to suppress the border. At present, the coalition forces have no energy to send people to govern the local area.
.If these people are not dealt with, they will rebel again as soon as they take off.
If Sendai Clan can send Date Murakusho out to lead the army, this guy will not be a fool; although he has never been on the battlefield, he is a skilled veteran in how to govern the place.
Forget it, let them do whatever they want! Zhao Xin then asked Chen Jishan to hand Ida Cunchang an exquisite-looking wooden box. Ida Cunchang opened it and saw two "Type 84" revolvers decorated with golden patterns.
Zhao Xin said that this was a gift, given to the other party for self-defense; Date Murachang happily thanked him and accepted it.
Next, Zhao Xin proposed an idea, which almost made Ida Cunchang jump out of his skin; because his proposal was to implement an annual tribute tax rate of "five publics and five citizens" in the occupied areas.
Why did Zhao Xin do this? Here we need to talk about the tax burden of the Satsuma Domain, so that we can understand how miserable the lives of the farmers and lower-level samurai in this era were.
The so-called official height of the Satsuma Domain is 770,000 koku, but the actual land surveyed is only 720,000 koku. According to the calculation of 6 liters per 9 buckets per koku in the Edo period, the annual harvest of the Satsuma Domain was 691,200 koku.
Note! 691,200 koku is still unhulled rice. The rice yield after hulling is a little over 50%, so the total is only 350,000 koku, which is reduced by half.
According to the annual tribute of Satsuma Domain's "eight lords and two citizens", the lord can receive 280,000 koku, while the citizens can only receive 70,000 koku. The Shimazu family's feudal office will take 40% of the 280,000 koku, which is 112,000 koku;
The feudal lords received 60%, or 168,000 koku.
It seems like a lot, right? Don’t worry, the feudal lord still has to tax the feudal lords, 13% of the annual harvest, so the feudal lords are left with 146,160 koku. The Shimazu family currently has one hundred thousand samurai, even if
Evenly distributed, each person only gets 1.4 dan per year. Don’t even encounter a disaster year. If there is a famine or something, you won’t even get 1.4 dan.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There is not enough food in this! So the lower-level warriors must borrow money, work, and do small businesses to support their families.
The Shimadzu family themselves spent 15,000 taels of gold every year just for attendance. Thirty-three years ago, in the third year of the Horeki Period, the shogunate asked the Shimazu family to undertake the water conservancy project of the Kiso River, which cost them 660,000 yuan at once.
Two gold debts.
Since Shimazu Shigehiro became the head of the family, he dominated Ryukyu's sugar trade through his invasion of Ryukyu, and coupled with the lacquer ware and other handicraft trade, this allowed the Satsuma Domain's huge debt to be alleviated; so losing Ryukyu was a big blow to the Shimadzu family.
That is absolutely unacceptable.
(Do you understand how the Satsuma clan’s debt of five million taels came from? The Tokugawa shogunate was extremely ruthless to foreign daimyo.)
Zhao Xin's suggestion is the same as his usual approach, which is to use force to open the way, and economic means are the core. If the economic problem is not solved, it will be useless no matter how many battles are won. And the purpose of war is often for economic interests.
Zhao Xin's goal is the huge profits of Hisikari gold mine, and it is the same for the Sendai clan. What nonsense is revenge for the master, it is all about money! The Sendai clan itself has a debt of three million taels of gold, if it were not for coveting
Ryukyu trade, Ishikawa Murafumi would not ask Hokkai Town to send troops!
At present, Beihai Town has given the Sendai Clan a ten-year interest-free loan of 3 million. Capturing Satsuma can solve at least half of the Sendai Clan's financial difficulties. In addition, Zhao Xin allows the Sendai Clan to participate in the Ryukyu trade. Ishikawa Murafumi naturally gave birth to Watoku.
The Sichuan family’s thoughts on arm-wrestling.
Is the Sendai Clan really afraid of Hokkai Town? Of course, there is still some fear. But if the Sendai Clan’s bosses don’t have ambitions, they can just pretend to be grandsons and let the shogunate take care of it. It’s not a big deal if the head of the family dies.
There was a queue of people waiting.
The above are the real reasons behind this "war against Sasha".
After the coalition forces set off northward, the Sendai Domain's horse team was responsible for clearing the way; the horses these people rode were all war horses captured at Sado Foot, and there were only a dozen horses in total. Date Murachang followed Zhao Xin's suggestion, and he made the horse team responsible for
Many people in the cavalry and ashigaru teams who opened the way had a back flag with the words "Five Publics and Five Citizens" written on their backs.
This move is of no use against illiterate mountain people. They have to turn around and run away whenever they see an army from either side.
However, to be honest, this trick has had a certain effect on the village heads (village chiefs) along the road. As grassroots managers who help the feudal government and county officials collect taxes, these people are all literate.
. When they saw the Sendai Clan's slogan of "Five Publics and Five Citizens", they thought they were dazzled, but they still maintained a cautious wait-and-see attitude.
In order to make it easier for the troops to move forward lightly, Zhao Xin, the "mobile warehouse", walked with the guard platoon in the marching team of the third regiment. He smiled and greeted the soldiers around him all the way, which surprised several Sendai clan warriors.
You must know that Zhao Xin had the image of a great devil who could make children cry at night in Ishinomaki Port. Such a man did not even ride a horse, but just followed the soldiers on foot. Several samurai could not understand.
"Sir, who shall we fight next year?" A soldier walking on the left side of Zhao Xin suddenly asked Zhao Xin with a smile.
Zhao Xin smiled and scolded: "You brat, you are addicted to bullying, right?" As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of snickering in the team.
The soldier scratched his head in embarrassment and said as he walked: "My family is from Shandong, and life there is quite hard. It is a pity to leave such a large wasteland outside the customs. I want to let those fellow villagers come to our Beihai to plant crops."
land."
Another short and stocky soldier said: "No! The Tatar emperor did not allow the common people to cultivate such good land. My family has a total of six people. At the beginning, we only had eight points of land, and we had to share three acres in the village.
This is not enough to eat."
As soon as these words came out, several soldiers also started talking. The platoon leader walking in front suddenly shouted: "No one is allowed to talk! Watch your step."
Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "The Northern Navy is not conquering the world just to feed itself. There are thousands of people like you in the pass. Moreover, the place outside the pass is huge. In order to allow more people to come and plant crops,
We not only have to conquer the land, we also have to be able to hold it."
Finally, the Shandong soldier couldn't help but ask again: "Sir, what do you think we are doing all the way here to fight?"
Of course, Zhao Xin couldn't say that there was a golden mountain waiting for him to dig out. With a roll of his eyes, he said to the Shandong soldier: "Many people in our army used to be farmers in this country. We are fighting this war to let these
Farmers have a way to survive. Do you know how high the rent is here?"
The land rent in Daiqing next door is more complicated than in the island country. The government collects currency, and the landlords only collect rent. For tenants, they have to bring their own seeds, their own cattle, etc. Generally, they can save at least 50% to 60%.
Of course, being exploited by subordinate staff when paying taxes is another matter.
After all the soldiers finished talking, Zhao Xin said: "80% of the rent here has to be paid to the government."
"My mother, come here!" All the soldiers were startled, thinking that if the landlord who led Qing Dynasty dared to charge such a heavy rent, he would have killed his mother long ago.
I heard Zhao Xin say again: "If you can't survive in your hometown, you can still escape from famine. There are people giving porridge along the way. But the farmers here can't even escape. They can only endure. They can't eat the rice they grow for a year."
A few mouthfuls.”
No one in the team spoke anymore.
At this time, the people at the bottom of the East Asian countries did not have nationalistic sentiments, and the farmers' sufferings were all felt by them. The soldiers in the marching team were secretly gritting their teeth when they heard what Zhao Xin said, and they had to deal with this Satsuma domain.
, we must let the poor breathe and live!
From Zuoduolu to Xiaogenzhan, there was only one winding path through the mountains and forests. A team of several thousand people was pulled out for several miles and dozens of miles of mountain roads for three days before the vanguard arrived at the outskirts of Xiaogenzhan.
The stronghold occupied by Ogen is still surrounded by mountains and water. Because the small houses on the ground here are close to the Hama Racecourse on the north bank of Xiongchuan River, it is also called the "Bang no Houses".
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When the vanguard of the Sendai clan appeared on the other side of the Ogawa River, the feudal lords in Ogenezhan immediately began to prepare for war.
The children were moved to the Suwa Shrine at the foot of the mountain to the east for shelter.
With the North Navy's cannons as support, the Sendai domain warriors on horseback showed off their power on the west bank of the Ogawa River. When the Ashigaru team arrived, they began to cut down trees everywhere and prepare to build a pontoon bridge.
At dusk, the Northern Navy and the Sendai Army camped at the foot of the mountain west of Ogawa. The Sendai Army chopped wood for a long time, and felt that it was protected by the Northern Navy, so they just surrounded a small camp with chopped wooden stakes. The Northern Navy still behaved well.
They promptly built camp fortifications and cleared the shooting boundary. At the same time, they lit more than a dozen bonfires on the shore of Xiongchuan as a warning.
At nightfall, several small boats carried Xiaogenzhan's warriors across the river quietly, preparing to launch a night attack on the North Korean Navy. Unexpectedly, as soon as their boat reached the center of the river, they were violently fired by several machine guns of the North Korean Navy. More than a dozen people were killed.
The armored samurai and ashigaru had nowhere to hide, and they all fell into the water before they could even shoot their arrows. The sneak attackers on other boats hopelessly threw a few arrows towards the other side, and then took advantage of the dark night to escape back to Ogenzhan.
At dawn the next day, the Sendai Army continued to build the pontoon bridge, while the Northern Navy prepared to launch a bombardment according to established procedures. That is to say, Zhao Xin followed, otherwise it would be difficult to carry a large number of artillery shells.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the artillery company determined the position and coordinates, and eighteen mortars directed another bombardment at the Satsuma samurai and Hamanoya who were lined up in front of Wakamiya Shrine on the opposite bank. The Satsuma samurai and Tingzhuang were preparing to fight.
They were all stunned and looked at the scene in front of them without knowing what to do.
When the Sendai Army built the pontoon bridge and the Ashigaru Corps, Iron Artillery Corps and Archery Corps rushed to the other side, all that awaited those Satsuma warriors was massacre.
"Aim~~shoot!"
"Bang bang bang...!!!"
"Raise the bow~~shoot!"
White smoke filled the air in front of the Wakamiya Shrine. Dozens of Satsuma warriors who knew they could not escape ran into the Sendai clan's iron artillery team. They shouted and charged at the iron artillery team with guns. What greeted them was only the blazing heat.
of iron bullets and rain of arrows.
The beach house had been completely blown up. The collapsed stone walls and the exposed limbs under the bricks showed that many samurai had gathered here before, and they died without even seeing the faces of their enemies.
The surviving war horses ran and neighed in fear in the streets. A dozen Sendai clan ashigaru rushed over to take the horses regardless. This was a trophy, and whoever grabbed it would get it!
When several samurai leaders from the Sendai Domain led their men to the Suwa Shrine on the east bank of the Ogawa River, they were faced with a courtyard full of women, children and the elderly. Perhaps the battle was fought too easily and smoothly.
The leading samurai leader did not let his men kill. They just asked the old man and the woman to put down their weapons. After another search, they drove these people back to the town of Konezhan.
Women were crying and looking for their relatives in the rubble, holding the corpses and crying loudly, while a group of Sendai soldiers stood in the streets and watched silently...