,!
The incendiary bombs burned Hakata Port all night long until the first twelve hot air balloons launched and released all the incendiary bombs they carried.
Most of the houses in Hakata City were made of wooden structures, which were completely burned, and countless people were burned to death.
The general garrisoned in the city, Kuriyama Toshiaki, was desperate and led a thousand remaining soldiers to surrender to the Tatars.
Kuriyama Toshiaki was a retainer of Kuroda Tadayuki, the lord of Fukuoka domain, and was ordered to lead 3,000 troops to aid Hakata.
Kuriyama Toshiaki was very satisfied. He planned to rely on the strong defense of Hakata Port and sufficient troops to drive out the Tatars and establish a military exploit like Shao Er Jingzi (a Japanese general in the Yuan-Japanese War).
Unexpectedly, before the Qi army attacked the city, countless fireballs fell from the sky.
Last night alone, more than a thousand Fukuoka soldiers were burned to death by skyfire.
When Toshiaki Kuriyama saw clearly the strength of the Qi army outside the city, he found that the opponent had at least 50,000 people and was well-equipped. He had never seen many artillery pieces.
The Fukuoka retainer immediately gave up any thoughts of resistance and voluntarily surrendered to the Tatars.
The peace envoy sent by Kuriyama Toisho was executed by the Qi army before he could see the Supreme Emperor.
Then came more intense shelling.
The artillery of the three major corps of the Qi army, together with the artillery of the ships cruising on the sea, bombarded the city wall indiscriminately.
A second batch of hot-air balloons carrying incendiary bombs took off again and continued to carry out carpet bombing of the city.
After the war, statistics showed that hot air balloons dropped a total of more than 30,000 incendiary bombs. Private houses and military barracks in Hakata City were razed to the ground, thousands of buildings were burned to the ground, and a total of 8,373 people were killed and burned (the actual death rate may exceed 10,000).
Hot air balloons can still see the flames soaring into the city from a thousand meters altitude, and several fires burned for three days before slowly extinguishing.
Many residents in the city died of suffocation due to exhaustion of oxygen due to combustion, especially in low-lying areas. People who were on fire and lacked oxygen rushed to jump into the Sumida River to survive.
However, the river has already boiled...
After the city was broken, the Sumida River was filled with corpses as black as charcoal.
Along the corridor leading outside the city, the corpses of Japanese pirates who died of trampling were stacked more than six feet high, like hills.
~~~
The Supreme Emperor still has his own ideas.
The morning sun shines through the dark clouds and onto the faces of the living.
Zhang Dong, Pei Dahu and others gathered around the Supreme Emperor and rode their horses slowly to the gate of Hakata City.
At this time, the miserable wailing in the city all night finally subsided completely.
The wind blew by, and the white ashes were mixed with the dust from the burning armor wood, swaying in the wind and disappearing into the smoke.
Crows were hovering overhead, making loud noises, and fires were everywhere in the city. Looking at the roasted corpses, these birds, which had nowhere to stay, were very anxious. Some birds that had eaten human flesh swooped down with red eyes, trying to peck at the living bodies. people.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
Zhang Dong shouted loudly, raised his short blunderbuss, and guarded him in front of the Supreme Emperor. The flaming blunderbuss was aimed at the swooping crow.
The Supreme Emperor gently pushed Zhang Mazi away, looked up at the sky, his eyes were cracked, his eyes were slightly divergent, and the ferocious crow was glared at by the Supreme Emperor.
With the sound of kacha, the crow's wings were all broken, and it fell straight from the air and smashed into the dust.
A group of war horses were frightened, raising their heads and neighing. Only the mount under the Supreme Emperor's crotch did not react at all and continued to quietly gnaw on the grass.
Everyone was shocked.
The Supreme Emperor looked at the crow that fell on the ground, and suddenly remembered a movie he had watched in his previous life. The protagonist said that there was a kind of seabird that could not land on the ground for its entire life because it had no feet.
"I don't have any legs, so I can't stop."
The wind blew, and countless burned ashes rose into the sky and disappeared into the smoke.
The wall of Hakata City stands abruptly in front of everyone like a scar on the ground.
Wang Cong, the artillery chief, stepped forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, there are probably not many people alive in the city. Do we still need to shell the city?"
Liu Zhaosun looked at his old subordinates with a strange look, and then looked around:
"Why, are you soft-hearted?"
The subordinates shook their heads and remained silent.
Since that dream of going into the deep sea to kill the sea monster, the Supreme Emperor's great cause of cultivating the mysteries has taken a step further and made breakthrough progress.
He is only one step away from becoming an immortal in the end.
He is getting farther and farther on the road to seeking immortality, and at the same time, the remaining humanity in him is getting less and less.
It is said that this is the only way for every person to become an immortal.
Only without self and nothing can we transcend time and space and achieve eternity.
But these close ministers in front of them are still ordinary people, and it is cruel to these people to massacre the city and destroy the country.
Even Zhang Dong, who has always been known for his cold-bloodedness, began to panic.
Even if they are as cruel as the Meng Yuan, who captures the city and captures the enemy's territory, the children who are lower than the wheel among the enemy prisoners will be forgiven.
But the Supreme Emperor killed all his enemies, no matter men, women, old or young, and truly did not leave any chickens or dogs behind.
The Supreme Emperor could tell what everyone was thinking at a glance.
"Senti, do you know what justice is?"
As the mouthpiece of the empire, Dongguan Zai must not make any mistakes in implementing the empire's will.
Senti blurted out: "Your Majesty, justice is your will. Your Majesty said that the sun rises from the west. Your Majesty said that Europe is the homeland of Daqi. This is justice."
The Emperor looked indifferent and raised his hand to point at the still burning Hakata City.
"I remember what I told Emperor Guangde before about justice. Now that you are all here, I can tell you again. If you understand, there will be no doubts in the future."
Zhang Dong, Liu Xingzuo, High Priest Dongfang Zhu, Deng Changxiong and others dismounted one after another to listen to the teachings of the Supreme Emperor.
"Justice belongs to the strong, and to the citizens who are under the strong. For example, today's massacre of Bodo City is beneficial to the people of Daqi, and I can lead you to do this. This is justice."
Senti was worthy of being the mouthpiece of the empire. Before the Emperor could finish speaking, he immediately added an explanation:
"Your Majesty's words are thoughtful and thought-provoking. I have been taught a lesson. It doesn't matter what you are doing. As long as it can be done and benefit the people, it is right."
The Supreme Emperor nodded to Dongguan Zai: "You understand justice."
Zhang Dong and others also agreed.
At this time, the soldiers on the hot air balloon basket began to drop bundles of leaflets written in Japanese. The flying leaflets fell everywhere, and many fell directly on the burning ruins.
"As you all already know, the Japanese are the accomplices of the sea monster. For hundreds of thousands of years, they have been working as a sidekick to the tiger and have killed countless people. Therefore, I led my troops to the east to slay the monster."
The Supreme Emperor took a leaflet that had fallen down, glanced at the Japanese characters written crookedly on it, and held the leaflet in his hand. When he let go, the paper had turned into ashes.
"In the future, Da Qi will frequently go abroad to fight. So, Instructor Sen, I ask you, how should your instructors promote our enemies to Da Qi's military and civilians?"
Senti didn't expect to be asked another question. He responded quickly and said without thinking:
"Your Majesty, I will try every means to collect the crimes committed by the enemy, such as their provocation to Da Qi, their rudeness to Da Qi's envoys, and their bullying of the people on the border..."
The Supreme Emperor raised his hand to interrupt Senti.
"not enough."
Senti's face was full of surprise. He had been promoting it like this for the past ten years, and the effect was good. Every time before a battle, as long as the training officers of each battalion spoke, the morale of the troops would be greatly boosted.
The Supreme Emperor looked at all his confidants and said loudly: "First of all, the army and people of Qi must understand clearly that the enemies they face are not human beings. They must know that the enemies are some kind of inferior evil tribe. For example, the people who are being attacked in the city are now The Japanese pirates grilling, these enemies are all the accomplices of the sea monster, and the blood flowing on the Japanese pirates is different from ours... To put it simply, the Japanese pirates are not human beings."
"Everything must be justified. Only when the enemy is not a human being is the prerequisite for slaughtering a city and destroying a country. It is also the fundamental reason for the empire's crusade against them."
When the Emperor said this, he looked back at the high priest Francisco who was thinking about it next to him.
"Just like the European Crusades, soldiers do not need to know their enemies. It is enough to know that the enemy is not human. Since the enemy is not human, there is no need to enjoy human rights and naturally cannot survive."
Senti put his hands on his hands and laughed: "No wonder our ancestors often said, 'Those who are not from my race will have different hearts.' It turns out it's the same routine, and it doesn't matter whether the barbarians are right or wrong, as long as they are not from my race, that's enough. That’s the reason to kill them.”
The Supreme Emperor said happily: "Senti, you know how to publicize."
Unknowingly, Mustache's classic theory was completely absorbed by the Supreme Emperor, and when he arrived in Daqi, the idea of the reduction of human beings was further upgraded.
The reason for completely wiping out an ethnic group with a population of one million or even tens of millions just because of the enemy's provocation against oneself and because the enemy bullies the border is obviously not very sufficient.
As Daqi continues to expand, the opponents it will encounter in the future will basically be "non-our races."
Therefore, the means of war must change to adapt to the new situation.
The imperial chariot rumbled forward, its appetite becoming larger and larger, and its appearance becoming more and more ferocious.
Only the Supreme Emperor, who is close to becoming a god, can control this evil chariot and move it from one peak to another.
"Hakata City is a signal. Except for leaving affluent cities like Nagasaki to replenish military supplies, all places in Kyushu can be cleaned up."
After the Emperor finished speaking, he got on his horse and glanced at his subordinates.
"Xie Yang and I have made repeated calculations and concluded that it is not worth the gain to send troops to garrison for a long time after the Japanese country is captured. It consumes huge amounts of money and food every year, and Daqi cannot bear it. As time goes by, Yuan Chonghuan will appear again. tragedy.”
"I need a clean Japanese country. The significance of the Japanese country's existence in the future is to serve as a military station and port for the empire to transport more people to Yinzhou. The Japanese country does not need too much farmland, nor does it need too many people. So, you know what's next What should we do?"
Everyone was frightened and nodded.
"Keep firing."
