After breaking the city, the Ming army did not attack the city immediately, because this was the icing on the cake. If there were serious casualties, it would be self-defeating.
At this moment, it was in the dark and unclear about the situation inside, so Wang Bi ordered to continue bombarding the gap to prevent Japanese pirates from rushing to repair it. At the same time, he used wheelbarrows to dump earth and rocks one by one to fill up the moat.
The death squads also had a good meal and were ready to go into battle to clear the way for the army.
When daybreak came, they found that there was not a single Japanese soldier left on top of the city...
Wang Bi sent people across the river to check. When the scout carefully climbed over the ruins of the city wall, he saw that there was really no soldier left in the water city.
"Damn it." Wang Bi spat after hearing the report. He looked at Hu Quan and Hu Bo and smiled bitterly. Why is it so difficult to win a big victory?
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In fact, when the city wall was blown down, Huai Liang still wanted to organize a resistance. After seeing the gap in the city wall, Young Master Laicheng and Dayou exchanged glances and went to gather their own troops separately.
Then he opened the east gate guarded by the second son's family and retreated towards Ono Castle. Before leaving, he did not forget to say hello to the Shimazu family. The Shimazu family was still in a coma for a long time. The elders of several pen-headed family members gathered together and asked him to follow.
We ran away together.
The three people did not say hello to Huai Liang when they left, making it clear that they would no longer obey the orders of Zheng Xi Mansion. Upon seeing this, the other wealthy people from Kyushu also withdrew their troops. Without the three people as the main force, who would stay to serve Huai Liang?
cannon fodder?
Prince Huai Liang was so angry that his nose was twisted, but there was nothing he could do. He had a cooperative relationship with the local tycoons in Kyushu. If he dared to stop them, a fight would break out on the spot, and who might die might not be the same.
He had no choice but to lead the Xifu troops to withdraw from Suicheng and prepare to return to Ono Castle to complain to the Emperor. However, the three people who returned to Ono Castle first had already spent the whole night begging to see Emperor Nagakei.
It was not yet five o'clock in the morning, but Nagakei had already woken up, so he summoned the second son, Raicheng, Otomo Kansai, and the old Shimazu Yoshiguro, the pen master of the Shimazu family, to the imperial palace.
After the three people bowed and saluted, they first apologized for disturbing His Majesty's peaceful dream.
"If the military situation is so bad, how can we sleep?" Changqing shook his head and said, "You are withdrawing because Shuicheng cannot be defended?"
"Back to Your Majesty." Young Master Lai Cheng said respectfully: "A section of the west city wall was blown down by the Ming army's gunpowder. If I don't evacuate, I will have to rely on the buildings in the city for street fighting."
"Then why did you withdraw early?" Changqing's courtiers asked.
"Because once the street fighting begins, we and the Ming army will be completely deadlocked." Otomo said solemnly.
"The Ming army invaded Kyushu, plundered the Dazaifu, and disturbed His Majesty the Emperor. Both sides have been fighting to the death for a long time!" the courtier shouted.
"It is the Ming Dynasty and His Highness Huai Liang who are fighting to the death, not with us!" Young Master Laicheng was angered by the attitude of this courtier, so he simply stopped hiding it.
"It was his frenzied actions that killed the Ming envoy first and assassinated the Ming Emperor later, which led to the Ming's revenge!"
"It was also him who ignored Ming's ultimatum and insisted on resisting, which led to today's defeat!" Otomo continued: "Not only is our army defeated again and again, but even the Northern Dynasty reinforcements led by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu are closing their doors.
The Strait was completely destroyed!"
"Now it seems that the battle situation in Shuicheng is of no importance. Even if we stick to the end, we can't change the disparity in strength between the two countries... The final outcome is doomed." Young Master Laicheng sighed, and he finally became a surrender faction.
"In this case, we should reflect on what caused this failure." Dayou raised his voice angrily and said: "Han Feizi said: 'When a country is small, it is not humble, when it is small, it is not afraid of the strong, and when it is rude, it is insulting.
Great neighbors, those who are greedy and clumsy will perish! 'How can we not be defeated if we take advantage of all four of them?"
"Young country, weak, rude, greedy..." Chang Qing chewed on these eight words, his mouth full of bitterness.
The courtier had no way to refute, so he could only say angrily: "Now that we are talking about this, do we have to surrender?"
"This is a peace negotiation, not a surrender." Otomo corrected him.
"Aren't they all the same?" the courtier snorted.
"We have tried our best, but the disparity in strength is so great that we have no choice now." Shimazu Yoshiguro said on behalf of the Shimadzu family.
"Besides, it's all Huai Liang's fault. The main responsibility should be borne by him. There is no need for Your Majesty and his ministers to take the blame for him!" Young Master Laicheng said loudly: "I sincerely request your Majesty to capture Huai Liang immediately and hand it over to the Ming army.
Only in this way can we eliminate weapons and retain our strength to protect ourselves, Your Majesty!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Ming army will retreat sooner or later, but the threat of the Northern Dynasty is always there. Losing too many troops to the Ming army will only give the Northern Dynasty an advantage!" Otomo said in a low voice: "The Ming army just wants us to hand over
Out of Huai Liang, the Northern Dynasty wants His Majesty to hand over three artifacts. Which one is lighter and which one is more important? We must carry it clearly!"
His Majesty the Emperor, who had always been aloof and silent, was finally moved when he heard this.
The so-called three artifacts are the Amancongyun sword, the eight-foot magatama and the eight-foot mirror. It is said that when the emperor came, Amaterasu granted the Qiongqiong pestle to the treasures and was inherited by the Japanese emperors from generation to generation. These three artifacts have been used for thousands of years.
It is regarded as a token of the Japanese royal family, and has almost the same meaning as the jade seal passed down from China.
When the Northern and Southern Dynasties split, Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Kyoto with the Three Sacred Treasures. Since then, the Three Sacred Treasures have been inherited by the Southern Dynasties. Because the emperor established by the Northern Dynasties did not have the Three Sacred Treasures, he always lacked legitimacy, which led many daimyo to believe that the emperor's legitimacy was in the Southern Dynasties.
Therefore, the Northern Dynasty has always been obsessed with regaining the three artifacts to establish legitimacy. But for the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, losing the three artifacts would really mean nothing...
"But the Ming Dynasty ordered your Majesty to dethrone you and demote you to the king of Japan. This is unacceptable under any circumstances!" the courtier said with a dark face.
"That's actually not the case." Otomo shook his head and said: "Looking at the history books, from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, when our country paid tribute to the Celestial Empire, His Majesty the Emperor always called himself the King of Japan. The Meng Yuan Dynasty was a Di Yi who stole China, so he refused to submit. This is actually
Therefore, the Song Dynasty also observed festivals."
"Now that the Emperor of Heaven has expelled the Tartars and restored China, this is indeed the orthodoxy of the Celestial Dynasty. Our country will immediately resume paying tribute. Your Majesty should follow the ancient system and continue to call himself the King of Japan."
"But Huai Liang used clever words to deceive the emperor. On the grounds that it was not appropriate for His Majesty to surrender his status, he paid tribute in the name of conquering the Western Prefecture and deceived the Ming Dynasty into conferring him the title of King Huai Liang of Japan." Dayou's relatives continued to talk:
"How could that fellow Huai Liang accept it calmly? How could he put His Majesty in the right place? His disobedience is clearly revealed. Now that the Ming Dynasty has seen through it and came to investigate, we can only blame Huai Liang.
It is his sole responsibility to deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates!"
"Indeed, Huai Liang has wronged the country and me a lot..." Changqing sighed, feeling that what he said was very reasonable.
