Chapter 201: Massacre the city and plunder the territory
The naval warfare tactics of the Datang Navy have just been tested and proven to be effective.
At the mouth of the Baijiang River in the Baekje Kingdom, the news of the defeat of the Japanese fleet may have already reached the mainland. Three days later, the Tang Dynasty navy Chen Ship once again took up the same posture to annihilate the enemy at the mouth of the Baijiang River outside the port of Nagasaki.
At this time, at the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the size of the fleet leaving the port to fight was much smaller than that at Baijiangkou.
The more than a thousand small Japanese warships heading to Baekje must be the result of the Japanese betting on this battle with all their strength.
The Japanese were defeated and the fleet was completely annihilated at the mouth of the Baijiang River. The fleet left behind in Nagasaki Port was almost completely unable to pose any threat to the Tang Navy.
Li Qinzai squinted his eyes and counted roughly. There were about a hundred Japanese warships sailing from Nagasaki Port, and there were more than sixty Tang Dynasty warships commanded by Li Qinzai and Cheng Boxianneng.
More than sixty warships versus a hundred small fishing boats...
Amidst the rumbling drums, the Tang Navy formed a formation and then slowly rolled over...
Crushing without any suspense, the mention of the naval battle process makes Japanese people sad. More than a hundred small warships were instantly annihilated under the huge waves of the Tang Dynasty Navy.
Without even a decent resistance, the boat approached and weakly fired a few arrows at the Tang Dynasty warship. Then, they were hit by several volleys of three-eyed muskets, killing the Japanese on the boat and jumping into the sea.
Next came the time for the three-eyed gun to harvest human lives. According to Li Qinzai's order, whether the Japanese resisted on the boat or jumped into the sea, all were shot with the three-eyed gun. No survivors were left alive, and no prisoners of war were taken.
Many years later, in the history books of the Japanese state, there were only four words covering this sudden war: "The sea near the sea is completely red."
Just like this, the warships of the Tang Dynasty slowly docked in Nagasaki.
Countless Japanese gathered at the port of Nagasaki, still unwilling to give up, and fired wildly at the warships slowly approaching the shore.
Of course, the three-eyed muskets on the Tang Dynasty warships were not polite. After several rounds of shooting, the Japanese arrow array was in chaos.
The three-eye blunderbuss is a shotgun. The gunpowder is mixed with many sharp iron pieces. After ignition and firing, the iron pieces are ejected from the muzzle. The damage to the enemy is in pieces. This kind of power is definitely not comparable to that of bows and arrows, especially
It's close combat, and the three-eyed gun is invincible.
The Japanese had never seen firearms, let alone their power.
As soon as they engaged in battle, the Japanese were shocked to discover that this strange-looking weapon that could make loud noises and spit out fire was so sharp that it could knock down a whole enemy with one shot. After several rounds of volleys, there was almost no grass left within fifty steps.
Under the cover of two thousand three-eyed muskets, the soldiers on the Tang army's warships landed calmly and formed an array in the open space of the port. However, the Japanese who resisted were all killed and injured, and the remaining ones fled.
The Tang army on land is even more invincible and unstoppable in all of Asia today.
On the upper floor of the battleship, Cheng Boxian turned to look at Li Qinzai and said: "Brother Jingchu, this battle is your idea. Tell me, what will be the rules after our soldiers land?"
Li Qinzai said calmly: "Replenish food, grass and water on the spot, and then go all the way east towards the Japanese Kyoto."
Cheng Boxian looked moved and said: "Destroy the royal city and destroy the palace?"
Li Qinzai said strangely: "Isn't this how a country is destroyed?"
Cheng Boxian's expression was uneasy. He wanted to destroy the country. Of course he would do it this way. How could he be so cruel?
The allied forces of the Tang Dynasty and Silla conquered Baekje, destroying Baekje from the inside out, causing thousands of miles of bloodshed, and destroying all palaces. The entire country was completely occupied by foreign countries, and Baekje became a truly destroyed country.
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But... the destruction of Baekje was ordered by the king, and the masters were famous, so how to destroy the Japanese country? Has the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty issued an imperial edict for conquest? Did the courtiers of Chang'an agree?
Cheng Boxian sighed, rubbed his face vigorously, and murmured: "I always feel like I'm on a pirate ship..."
Li Qinzai patted him on the shoulder and said in a very literary and authentic manner: "We can't go back, brother Shang Xian, we can't go back."
Pointing to the blood-stained sea surface, and to the Japanese people fleeing in panic at the port, Li Qinzai said: "The war has begun, and our army has also landed on the Japanese mainland. It is difficult to recover the water, and there is no arrow to turn back when the bow is fired. It is better to defeat the Japanese country with peace of mind."
I am hemiplegic, so I can have an explanation when I return to Chang'an."
"In the Battle of Baijiangkou, it was the Japanese who first provoked the Tang Dynasty. Today, the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese are at war with each other. Do you understand? Although we disobeyed orders and landed on the island, we were fighting the enemy. You are the general commanding the troops. In front of the enemy
Hesitation is a taboo for a general."
Cheng Boxian gritted his teeth and said: "The situation is like this, let's do it first!"
"Pass my general's orders to advance the entire army. Attack the city wherever you see it, plunder the territory wherever you see it, and kill the thieves wherever you see them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a general on the deck suddenly clasped his fists and said, "General, may I allow my brother to massacre the city?"
Cheng Boxian quickly glanced at Li Qinzai. Although he was the commander of the army, it was Li Qinzai who gave the advice along the way. Cheng Boxian couldn't help but focus on Li Qinzai.
Li Qinzai turned his head decisively and remained silent, pretending not to hear.
Cheng Boxian understood, gritted his teeth and said: "Every time a city is captured, it can be slaughtered for one day. Only the strong men will be killed, not the women and children."
The general accepted the order happily.
There are rules for massacre of a city. It is not a random act without any rules and scruples. This is the rule of the Tang army. There are clear military orders before the war, such as how long the massacre will last, who will be massacred, etc.
In the second year of Longshuo, mid-February.
The navy of the Tang Army landed at Nagasaki Port on the Japanese island of Kyushu, bringing the flames of war from Baekje to the Japanese mainland.
On the first day that the Tang army landed, Nagasaki City fell, blood was everywhere in the city, and the people cried and howled to the sky.
One hundred thousand Japanese people in Nagasaki lay down and begged for their lives under the swords of the Tang army. The Tang army obeyed the orders of General Cheng Boxian and massacred the city in one day, looting mountains of people's property from the government treasury.
The massacre of the city vented the pressure of the war, and plundering satisfied the desire for property. When the Tang army of more than 6,000 people set off east again from Nagasaki, the whole army was in high spirits, full of fighting spirit, and their spirit was completely different.
After the Tang army left Nagasaki City, the city was filled with blood and bones, and ten rooms were empty. Women were naked and crying to the sky, and all the mature men were slaughtered. There were fires everywhere in the city. This largest foreign port city in Japan was almost reduced to ruins.
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On February 15th of the second year of Longshuo, the leader of the Japanese state urgently dispatched 20,000 troops from Shikoku and Honshu Island to intercept the Tang army. The two armies met at Xiaguan, and a fierce battle broke out.
On February 17, the 20,000 Japanese army was defeated and fled, and the Tang army suffered more than 1,000 casualties.
In this era, firearms completely overwhelmed cold weapons with almost no effort. If the supply line of the Tang army's soldiers was not too long and the soldiers holding the guns were not wearing heavy armor, even the casualties of more than a thousand people would not have to be paid.
After this battle, the Japanese nation fell into complete panic.
Because the whole country has no troops left.
In the battle at Baijiangkou in Baekje, the Japanese army sent more than 40,000 troops, but the entire army was wiped out. In the battle at Xiaguan on the mainland, the remaining 20,000 Japanese troops were defeated.
At that time, the Japanese state had less than 80,000 standing troops, and the remaining troops were in the hands of selfish small country leaders. After the Battle of Xiaguan, fear of the strength of the Tang army, the capital of the Japanese state, Asuka City, was in chaos.
News of the defeat in Xiaguan reached Feiniao City. The regent of the Japanese state, Prince Zhongdaxiong, urgently summoned his ministers for discussion. After discussion, the monarch and his ministers decided to sue for peace from the Tang army and sent envoys to Xiaguan to ask for an audience with Li Qinzai and Cheng Boxian.
February twenty-four.
Li Qinzai refused to see the Japanese peace envoy and expelled him from the camp. The Tang army continued to move eastward.
On February 26, the peace envoys were expelled, and the news that the Tang army continued to advance eastward reached Asuka City. The Japanese court was in chaos, and the conservative forces in the court took the opportunity to force the regent, the eldest brother, the prince.
With powerful enemies suppressing the territory and internal and external troubles, the prince, the eldest brother of the Central Government, had to compromise internally. On February 28, the Xia family issued an edict to allow the powerful officials in the country to have private soldiers.
In early March, the Tang army continued to advance to Gangshan.
At this point, the Tang army had occupied nearly half of the Japanese territory, and traces of forward scouts had appeared outside Asuka Castle in Kyoto.