Looking at the fireworks blooming one after another in the Japanese pirate formation, Zhu Cizheng felt his scalp numbing, and his face became more solemn than ever before.
Zhu Cizheng's temperament is still somewhat different from Zhu Cixiang and Zhu Cijiong.
Zhu Cixiang is calm, wise and calm, and he always has a calm mind when dealing with big events.
Zhu Cijiong has a strong character but also a wit, which can be said to be both wise and courageous.
In comparison, Zhu Cizheng was much inferior to his two imperial brothers. At this time, when he saw the shells fired by several artillery groups of the Ming army exploding in the Japanese pirate formation, he was actually a little flustered.
In the final analysis, Zhu Cizheng is not a courageous person.
But Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu, Yao Qisheng, Li Yucheng, Zheng En, and Yu Chenglong felt their blood boiling, and the blood all over their bodies was burning.
"Ho ho ho ho." Mr. Zheng even laughed out loud.
"It's terrible, it's terrible. The Japanese pirates are terrible now. The Japanese pirates are very miserable now."
"Face such intensity and density of artillery fire coverage, no army in the world can withstand it." After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he exchanged glances with Sun Kewang.
Not only Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Yu Chenglong and others also secretly rejoiced.
Fortunately, they surrendered early. If they had surrendered late, they might have been blown to ashes by the Ming army's artillery just like the Japanese pirates on the opposite side. But now, they are part of the Ming army.
Li Yucheng felt an indescribable pride welling up in his heart.
Daming, this is the Daming Dynasty, this is the power of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty.
The ridiculous Japanese country dared to challenge the dignity of the Ming Dynasty beyond its own capabilities. Will it suffer a lot now?
However, for the Japanese country, this disaster has just begun, and the real punishment has not yet come.
Just when Zhu Cizheng and other officers and students were having different thoughts, Lieutenant General Xu Yingwei, commander of the Army's 1st Division, had already walked over. He first glared at Zhu Cizheng and others, and then scolded him loudly.
"What are you doing standing still? Shoot!"
"Your Majesty, you are not here to come to the 1st Division to watch a show."
"Raise your rifles and pour bullets on the heads of the Japanese pirates."
"Listen up, the Japanese pirates are the mortal enemies of our Ming Dynasty. Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to yourself. Kill all the Japanese pirates on the opposite side! Kill them all!"
Li Dingguo and other officers and students woke up from a dream and raised their guns to shoot.
But after Zhu Cizheng raised the rifle, he still didn't pull the trigger. He was afraid.
When he thought that as long as he gently pulled the trigger, someone on the other side would be shot dead by him, Zhu Cizheng was instinctively afraid. He really didn't dare to kill anyone, at least not at this time.
Seeing that several other officers and cadets were already playing table tennis non-stop, but Zhu Cizheng was the only one who had not fired yet, Xu Yingwei walked decisively behind Zhu Cizheng, first held Zhu Cizheng's right hand with his right hand, and then held Zhu Cizheng's hand with his left hand.
With his left hand, he stretched out a finger to press Zhu Cizheng's index finger, and then pressed it down hard.
Then there was a bang, and a bullet roared out in an instant.
When Zhu Cijiong looked anxiously, he saw a Japanese pirate falling back seventy or eighty steps ahead. Before he fell, Zhu Cijiong could clearly see that a bloody flower had bloomed on the Japanese pirate's face.
"I killed someone, I killed someone..." Zhu Cizheng's face instantly turned pale.
"Your Highness, you are killing Japanese pirates, animals, not people." Xu Yingwei patted Zhu Cizheng on the shoulder and said, "There is no need to feel guilty about killing an animal. You are doing good and protecting the people of the Ming Dynasty.
"
Zhu Cizheng couldn't listen at all, he only felt waves of smoke rising in his stomach.
Then, Zhu Cizheng turned over and fell to the ground, uh-huh, retching.
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At this time, the central and rear formations of the shogunate army had collapsed.
Because the targets of the Ming Navy naval gun group, the two mountain artillery groups of the 1st and 2nd Army Divisions, and the two field artillery groups were all the middle and rear formations of the shogunate army.
On the contrary, it was because the 2nd Regiment that went on the offensive was only shot by the infantry of the 1st Division. Although it also suffered heavy casualties, at least it did not collapse.
Because the second party still carried thousands of wooden fences as shields.
However, the 2nd Regiment could not hold on for long. Not long after the shogunate army's main and rear formations collapsed, the 2nd Regiment that had been lined up was also defeated by the 1st Division of the Ming Army.
Soon, a loud charge horn sounded, and the infantrymen of the 1st Division immediately installed bayonets on their rifles, and then launched a tidal charge with their rifles with bayonets in hand.
Long before the 1st Division launched its charge, the 4th and 6th brigades of the 2nd Division had already detoured from both wings, preparing to cut off the retreat route of the defeated shogunate troops and strive to annihilate them all.
"The battle is over." Zheng Zhilong put down the telescope and said with a smile, "The only suspense now is how many Japanese troops can be annihilated, but even if it ends up being a defeat, it's not a big deal."
Chongzhen smiled and said: "Zheng Qing, don't you think the Japanese army is fierce now?"
"Your Majesty, please stop making fun of me." Zheng Zhilong said with some shame, "I used to be shallow and didn't have enough understanding of the sharpness of my Daming firearms."
"Actually, that's not the case." Chongzhen said with a smile, "It's because our Ming Dynasty's firearms evolved too fast."
Since entering the age of steam engines, the accuracy of Ming military firearms has rapidly improved. After solving the primer technology and creating fixed-loading metal cartridges, they have made up for the two shortcomings of rate of fire and reliability. Now,
The firearms equipped by the Ming army are essentially no different from the firearms used in World War I.
The weapons are just very different, but the key tactical guiding principles are also very different.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Zheng Zhilong lacks knowledge of the performance and tactics of Ming military firearms.
Xu Sanguan, as the boss of an Osaka business, was most concerned about the plan to deal with the Japanese, and immediately asked: "Your Majesty, what will you say after annihilating the main force of the shogunate army?"
"Needless to say, of course we should take advantage of the victory to pursue it, occupy Kyoto and Edo, and completely destroy the Japanese country."
He paused for a moment and then said: "Then all the strong men of the Japanese country will be sent to the mainland to mine or build railways. No one will be left behind, and all will be sent to the mainland."
For the strong men of Japan, it is the greatest kindness not to castrate them.
Xu Sanguan nodded and asked: "Then what should we do with the women and children of the Japanese country?"
Chongzhen thought for a while and then said: "The women and children of the Japanese country were sold to Jiangnan and Beijing in batches, and sold to wealthy families as slaves, or to work in factories."
The treatment of Japanese women and children was more merciful.
Although young Japanese men do not need to be castrated, they can only spend their lives in mines or railway construction sites, and their mating rights will definitely be deprived.
However, Japanese boys under ten years old grew up in the Ming Dynasty because they were young. They accepted Han culture, spoke Ming Dynasty Mandarin, and their identity was also a Ming Dynasty commoner. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty court would not forcibly deprive them of their mating rights, as long as their owners
If a household is willing to give its slaves a wife, they can marry and have children.
As for girls and women of childbearing age in the Japanese country, they enjoy the same rights as ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they are sold as domestic slaves, they still enjoy basic human rights. For example, the master cannot harm their lives without reason, nor can they deprive them of their privacy without reason.
However, if the master wants to take them as concubines, he cannot refuse.
"There are no women or children left?" Xu Sanguan said a little disappointed, "Then only the old people will be left."
"Yes, we don't want any old people from the Japanese country." Chongzhen nodded, "Let them stay on the islands to fend for themselves. When the population of the Ming Dynasty explodes and there is not enough farmland, it will not be too late to immigrate to the Japanese islands.
"
With such an operation, Ming's population could experience a surge in a short period of time.
Then a few decades later, the residents of the Japanese islands also changed from Japanese to Chinese people.
From now on, the Japanese residents will write in Chinese characters, speak in Chinese, and their culture will also be improved Confucian culture, or to be more precise, it is Confucian Yangming Xinxue.
But for Osaka Company, this plan is not the optimal solution.
At that moment, Xu Sanguan whispered: "Your Majesty, you can actually leave some of your young men to mine in Japan. After all, Japan has a lot of iron ore, silver or even gold mines."
"No, not a single able-bodied man from Japan is allowed to stay." Chongzhen flatly refused.
"The Osaka Company wants to open a mine. When the navy conquers the Nanyang Islands in the future, it can traffic the Nanyang natives to the Japanese lands to mine or farm."
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Xu Sanguan, you don't have to worry about the big dealers running out of business. In the past twenty years, you have been busy just selling young men, women and children. As for the population of the Ming Dynasty in twenty years,
It must have exploded. By then, there will be new business of immigrating to Japan. With immigration, a large number of slave labor will be needed. In the future, the Osaka Company can specialize in trade between the local and Japanese countries. In this way, wouldn't the business be endless?
"
Hearing this, Xu Sanguan and Zheng Wangcai were completely relieved: "Your Majesty is wise."
This is good. According to this plan of the Lord, Osaka companies will never lack business.
As a result, as long as the Xu and Zheng families do not commit the serious crime of treason, they can guard the Japanese land and enjoy the dividends from generation to generation. In the future, they will be under Jiuquan and have an account to their ancestors.
While talking, the Ming army's pursuit of the shogunate army was in full swing.
Standing on the bridge of the Zhou Yu, looking down through binoculars, one can clearly see that the defeated troops of the shogunate army are fleeing all over the mountains and plains, just like wild boars scurrying around.
The Ming army also lost their formation in pursuit and dispersed into small teams, ranging from a hundred to ten people.
However, the problem is not big, because the shogunate army has completely disrupted its organization and cannot organize effective resistance at all. There is sporadic resistance, but it is not enough to pose a real threat to the Ming army.
Chongzhen saw no fewer than ten small-scale ambush battles through his telescope.
Basically, the Ming army could defeat the remaining soldiers of the shogunate army with just one salvo.
