Toshige Baba was riding in Nagasaki Castle, heading towards the port with a dozen Dutch businessmen.
The Dutch gave the horse farm a sum of money, hoping to expand the scale of the Dutch business establishment. After the horse farm received the money, he immediately took action and prepared to go to the field to point out the space for expansion to the Dutch.
A dozen ashigaru armed with Jumonji guns opened the way in front of them. Toshige Baba led the Dutchmen arrogantly and opened a path through the crowded flow of people.
On both sides of the road, there are bustling shops and decent tile-roofed buildings lined up in rows.
After more than ten years of development, Nagasaki has surpassed Hirado and become Japan's largest trading port. Every year, hundreds of trading ships dock here. These ships are large ships carrying hundreds of thousands of kilograms of goods, fully loaded with Ming Dynasty goods.
Raw silk and porcelain came. Bringing endless silver and prosperity to the Japanese
There are more than 40,000 residents living in the port of Nagasaki. In Japan, which has a population of only more than 10 million, this is already a real big city.
Because it is a city formed by merchants, Nagasaki lacks planning. The roads in the city are narrow and the buildings are connected one after another. Because there are many wealthy merchants, there are elegantly decorated luxury stores everywhere in the city. Raw silk is used to make silk and is sold to high-quality people.
The samurai made samurai uniforms, the porcelain from China was even more expensive, and the goods shipped by maritime merchants were all items that farmers could not afford.
Due to the gathering of merchants, this place has become the commercial center of Kyushu. Not only are luxury goods shipped from the Ming Dynasty sold, but wholesale merchants of rice, ironware and pottery have gradually gathered here. Japanese-style flags and signs are everywhere on both sides of the city's roads.
A bustling scene.
Every month, this city brings a lot of income to the Tokugawa Shogun family.
Nagasaki has a high position and is the target of maritime merchants from all over the world. Every month, Baba Rishung receives many gifts. Some of the gifts are handicrafts and luxury goods, and some gifts are pure silver. Compared with the former, Baba
Toshige prefers the latter. Baba Toshige hopes to save a large amount of silver when he leaves office.
In fact, the shogun also knew that Nagasaki was well-off in this position, so he turned a blind eye to Nagasaki's acceptance of gifts.
Baba Toshige was chatting with the Dutchman immediately when he suddenly heard a loud "boom" not far away.
What exploded?
Baba Toshige and the Dutchman followed the sound and looked ahead. Before they could realize what had exploded, they heard bursts of rolling thunderous explosions exploding in all directions. The "boom" explosions were like a barrage of cannons.
Unable to stop, there were hundreds of sounds, getting more and more intensive, and finally merged into a loud noise.
Baba Toshige's face turned pale with fright, and he didn't know where to hide while riding on his horse. He suddenly saw a black figure crashing into a business building on the right in front, and after a while, a huge spark appeared.
Exploded out of that store.
A huge "boom" sound burst out along with the shock wave, blowing a big hole in the wooden wall of the store. The broken wood followed the sparks in the big hole and sprayed out of the store, stabbing several pedestrians on the road.
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Riding on his horse, Toshige Baba looked around and found that after the explosion, fires had broken out from many buildings. More than a dozen black pillars of thick smoke appeared in Nagasaki Castle, which was particularly noticeable in the clear sky where the heavy fog had just dissipated.
Eye-catching.
"Enemy attack!"
The soldiers in Nagasaki City began to roar loudly. However, their roar was not so much to remind the citizens, but to embolden themselves. So far, there have been hundreds of explosions in the city, but the soldiers can't even tell where the attack came from.
Know.
The attack seemed to come from outside the pier, and the explosions seemed to be caused by artillery shells. But what cannonball could hit so far? It shot into Nagasaki Castle a few miles behind the pier. And the shells would also explode?
The Japanese cannon-casting technology is very backward, and they call cannon "the collapse of the country." Large-caliber artillery is rare in Japan, and the Japanese have never heard of explosive ammunition.
The citizens in the city were in chaos, screaming and fleeing to their homes. Although under this continuous bombardment, homes were as dangerous as on the roads, but the citizens still subconsciously believed that they would be safer at home.
The Ashigaru soldiers near Baba Toshige took action. They raised their spears and surrounded Baba Toshige, trying to use human flesh as a shield to protect this high-ranking official of the Tokugawa Shogun family.
The panicked Dutch, on the other hand, were completely unprotected and looked nervously in the direction of the port.
After a long time, three cavalrymen with the Tokugawa family flag on their backs rushed over. They rushed to the racecourse and jumped off their horses in front of Toshige, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Shouxingden, dozens of Chinese ships are coming from outside the harbor.
A large ship with hundreds of people on board is shooting towards Nagasaki Port."
Baba Toshige's face turned pale with shock. The Chinese? Hundreds of people collapsed? Shooting at Nagasaki from a few miles away? This unbelievable tactics suddenly made Baba Toshige lose his ability to think.
“Where did the Chinese come from?”
The kneeling cavalryman replied: "The guard ship that escaped back said that those big ships were hanging flags with the word "Li", and they might be the fleet of Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty!"
It turned out to be Li Zhi's fleet. Did Li Zhi really drive a giant ship to attack Japan?
Baba Toshige was still there in shock when he suddenly saw hundreds of black dots shooting towards him at a high speed in the sky. Those black dots like the god of death cut through the sky at high speed and shot into the streets and alleys of Nagasaki Castle.
In a commercial building and a private house, it broke through the simple wall built by the Japanese with wooden boards and crashed into the deepest part of the building.
Baba Toshige was so frightened that he doubled over and jumped off the horse, almost rolling to the ground.
"boom!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
"Boom! Boom!"
Huge sparks burst out from the impact point of the shells. Explosions were everywhere in the city, causing chaos. No one knew how many people were killed in the roaring explosions. The panicked citizens began to realize that their houses could not protect them.
He fled to the road in panic, running around like a headless fly.
Flames emerged from the bombed wooden houses and gradually began to engulf those wooden houses. Some people were carrying water to put out the fire, but more people lost their minds under the fear caused by the shells and ran around without even thinking of carrying water.
Save your own home.
In the panic-stricken city, the flames became more and more intense and began to spread to surrounding buildings.
Another burst of screams came, and hundreds of death-like shells flew in, slamming into Nagasaki Port, Japan's only foreign trade port.
A cannonball hit the road a few feet away from the racehorse and hit the dirt road. The smoking seal made Racehorse's scalp numb. A lower-level warrior shouted "Be careful!" and suddenly
He pounced on Toshige Baba.
With a "boom", the cannonball exploded. The iron projectiles swept across the space of several meters around, and two Ashigaru soldiers who escaped slowly were stabbed to death by the projectiles on the spot.
Panic quickly spread among tens of thousands of people in Nagasaki Port.
Amidst the explosions one after another, the whole city lost its calm. Obviously, these terrible shells will soon devour the entire Nagasaki. No one paid attention to the raging fire, and the citizens rushed into the house to save their own lives.
He took the child and the money, and then fled out of the city.
