Honxon Temple has actually been broken down once by the Shimadzu family!
Just as dusk was approaching this afternoon, the Shimazu family finally filled in a section of the trench to the north of Honshoji Temple, and then launched a general attack, using volley fire to inflict heavy casualties on the defenders. Finally, they broke into Honshoji Temple in one fell swoop. Temple courtyard.
The situation was very critical at that time. The Shimazu family soldiers and Zhu Cihuan's warrior guards started a melee fighting outside the main hall where Zhu Cihuan was hiding, and almost rushed into the main hall and killed him. Masaki Hoshina, who was guarding Zhu Cihuan, had already begged him with tears to commit suicide... Just when the prince was despairing and was about to draw his sword and kill himself, the Shimadzu army clearly had the upper hand and was about to win. But miraculously he was repulsed.
Although he barely managed to hold on to Benxun Temple, Zhu Cihuan finally understood that his life would probably not be saved.
Nearly half of his 2,000 warriors have been killed or wounded, and less than 1,000 can still fight. To make matters worse, one's own matchlocks were completely suppressed by the opponent's flintlocks - the Shimadzu army using flintlocks could form a denser formation, and the rate of fire of flintlocks was also significantly higher than that of matchlocks. Therefore, the gun battles between the two sides at the gap in the wall always show one-sided results! After several rounds of gun battles, Zhu Cihuan's matchlock soldiers had lost more than half, leaving only more than 300 people able to fight. On the other side, the Shimazu army alone has more than 1,000 flintlock guns that can be fired!
If you include the Spanish soldiers and the Japanese soldiers attached to the Spanish army, the strength comparison becomes even more disparate.
So tomorrow morning will be the day when Zhu Cihuan, the prince of Chongqing County in the Ming Dynasty, will die.
Knowing that he was going to die, Zhu Cihuan had no choice but to ask Baoke Zhenghui for paper and pen, and began to write his death poem in the main hall with a dim candlelight.
Zhu Cihuan had learned to write poetry. He was not very good at it, but he could write a few sentences. But now that I'm about to die, I can't hold back the famous sayings passed down from generation to generation. This was probably the only way to die after all the hardships... But no matter how hard it was, Zhu Cihuan finally managed to choke out four lines of limericks that became widely circulated.
He had just finished writing the limerick and Zhu Cihuan was crying when the door of the main hall was suddenly knocked open with a bang. Zhu Cihuan was startled, and when he looked up quickly, he saw Baoke Zhenghui running in like a whirlwind.
Zhu Cihuan was a little afraid to see Baoke now, because this guy always brought him frightening bad news recently... So he didn't dare to ask, just stared at Baoke's face blackened by gunpowder smoke.
"Your Majesty, have you finished writing your death poem?" Baoke saw the pen and paper on the ground.
"It's written..." Zhu Cihuan sighed.
"Let me take a look first," Baoke Zhenghui knelt down in front of Zhu Cihuan, then picked up the white paper with four lines of calligraphy written on it, and started reading, "Stocks are risky, you must be careful when entering the market. If you are not paying attention for a moment, you will burst into tears. ...This, this is a death poem?"
"Yes!" Zhu Cihuan said, "This can be regarded as a warning to future generations!" He asked again: "Baoshi, has the Shimazu army started attacking again?"
Hoshina Masaki shook his head, "Not yet... I just sent a military envoy."
"Military envoy?" Zhu Cihuan asked in a low voice, "Are you trying to persuade him to surrender?"
"No." Hoshina said.
Zhu Cihuan sighed: "I knew it wasn't...then what are they doing here?"
"They," Hoshiko paused, "the Shimazu family wants to give His Highness the King two choices!"
"Which two?" Zhu Cihuan asked hurriedly.
"The first is that the king committed suicide and died for his country!" Baoke said.
Zhu Cihuan sighed and said: "There is no need to choose, I am preparing to commit suicide... just... just... a little afraid of death!"
As he spoke, Zhu Cihuan burst into tears. He really suffered a big loss this time, and his life was at stake!
Hoshina Masaki shook his head quickly and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be afraid of death, you don't have to be afraid of death... Because, because Your Majesty, you still have a way to survive!"
"How to survive?" Zhu Cihuan raised his eyes and looked at Baoke with a bitter look on his face, "Do you still want me to surrender? Zhenghui, I have been a prisoner before. I know what it's like. I don't want to be a prisoner anymore, and I can't be... .”
He still knows something about the general trend. Now is not the time when Li Zicheng is sweeping the world, but when the Ming Dynasty is at its peak. If he surrenders to the Shimazu family, he will fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty sooner or later, and he will still have to die by then!
"No, no, no... I'm not asking the king to surrender. They can't bear it!" Masaki Hoshina shook his head, "The Shimazu family's way of survival for the king is to get married!"
"Marry?" Zhu Cihuan looked at Baoke blankly, "What does this mean?"
Hoshina Masaki said: "The meaning of marriage is that the king wants a bride!"
"I know this. I am married..."
Hoshina Masaki said with a smile: "Then we will marry again! This way the king can survive!"
"Who are you marrying?" Zhu Cihuan asked again.
"Marrying Shimazu Noyoshi," Hoshina Masaki said, "The one you have met is the daughter of Shimazu Mitsuhisa. She was the one who commanded the Shimazu army to beat us to a pulp!"
"She..." Zhu Cihuan was stunned again, really confused, "She wants to marry me? Then she beat me like this, and I almost died!"
Masaki Hoshina nodded repeatedly, as if he felt the same, "Your Majesty is right, Shimazu Noyoshi is indeed not good, he was so ruthless, he almost killed you!
So you have to marry her... then she will be yours, and you can deal with her severely! "
"This..." Zhu Cihuan seemed to be a little hesitant, "Let me think about it carefully!"
"Think about it?" Baoke Zhenghui looked at Zhu Cihuan, "Your Majesty, do you even need to think about this?"
yes! One side is suicide! On one side are the bridal chamber flowers and candles...and Shimazu Noyoshi is still a little beauty! What else is there to think about?
"I am thinking about how to deal with her!" Zhu Cihuan gritted his teeth and said, "And what I don't understand is why the Shimazu family wants to marry their daughter to me?"
yes! What’s so good about Zhu Cihuan? He doesn’t have a diploma, he doesn’t seem to have a job, he failed in stock trading, he even lost his father’s pension money, he even lost his own house, he still owed a lot of debt, he fled to America, and ended up running into There was a big battle, and they were besieged for no apparent reason.
This is a scumbag! Apart from being handsome, there is nothing good about him. If I had to find any bright spots, it would be that his father was the former emperor and his brother was the current emperor...
"Because reinforcements from the Ming army have arrived and are fighting with the Spanish army in the flood valley!"
The voice was a female voice, and then he saw a rather petite woman wearing kendo uniform walking in from outside the hall. When she arrived in front of Zhu Cihuan, she bowed Yingying: "The little girl Nai Ji wants to ask the king Jin An."
Zhu Cihuan was completely stunned. What was going on?
"Nai, Naiji, there is a war now!" Zhu Cihuan stammered, "You, why did you come in? Outside, people outside..."
"Your Majesty," Shimazu Nokichi straightened up and said with a smile, "Your guards all follow you for the purpose of making achievements. Isn't now the opportunity to make achievements?
Your Highness, this is also a good opportunity for you, Your Majesty, to make great achievements! "
"Making great achievements?" Zhu Cihuan seemed to understand a little bit, "Naiji, what do you mean...the Shimazu family is going to turn over and join the Celestial Empire?"
Shimazu Noyoshi nodded lightly: "The Shimazu family admired the king's benevolence and righteousness, so they resolutely turned against me... The king will not reject my concubine and the Shimazu family, right?"
"Of course I won't refuse!" Baoke Zhenghui had already spoken for Zhu Cihuan, "The king will punish you severely!"
"Really?" Shimazu Nokichi blinked his big, flirtatious eyes and cast a wink at Zhu Cihuan, "So, the king has agreed to marry me?"
"This, this..." Zhu Cihuan looked at Shimazu Nokichi carefully and finally nodded, "I agree! But you have to explain clearly to me how I should make contributions?"
Zhu Cihuan is still ambitious! He still has a lot of debt! If you can't make contributions, how can you pay off this debt?
